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Coffee Group

Coffee Group

Almost everywhere you would go today, or yesterday, and especially in a small town, there is a coffee group. I mean a cluster of individuals that gather every mor… Read moreCoffee Group

Storms

Storms

We’ve all probably witnessed tropical storms, hurricanes, nor’easters, or whatever else we want to call a batch of swirling weather; we now actually name tropical… Read moreStorms

The middle of March

The middle of March

Another week, another storm that somehow slipped around Block Island, the better part of Rhode Island it seems. It was hyped for a week, this great system that would finally give those who longed for it a true dose of winter, a tad late for t…

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Walking on moonbeams

Walking on moonbeams

The moon has been gloriously full this week, peaking Tuesday morning after sunrise along the East Coast. The moon seems to have different names, or more names, every year — most in this part of the world taken from the Native cultures and the…

The Point Judith Fishermen’s Co-op

The Point Judith Fishermen’s Co-op

For the past 55 years plus, if you were leaving Galilee Harbor while heading to Block Island you passed an 85-foot dock covered with a pitched roof. Just south of the USCG Station Point Judith stood this dock that was part of the Point Judith…

Annie

Annie

As we age we get nuttier. It’s a fact of life. I mean we get to the point when we just don’t bother with editing ourselves anymore as we get eye-rolling weird. Our filters go south after a certain age and it’s usually our spouses— if we’re ma…

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Town budget season underway

Town budget season underway

The fiscal year 2024 budget for the Town of New Shoreham was unveiled last week on March 15 and presented to the Town Council by Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and Fin…

Math and aftermath

Math and aftermath

Four years ago, it snowed on the last day of February. I found a photo in Facebook memories of my dog, my golden Autumn, standing in the yard, her head turned as if looking around, one I had captioned “what happened to the snow?”

Water Street 1960s

Water Street 1960s

Water street in the off season circa the 1960s. Field biologists did not predict this area of the island as habitat for the introduced deer. Were the deer homesick, or were they simply settling into island life? (Richard A. Dodge Collection)

Warm your belly in the deep freeze

Warm your belly in the deep freeze

My Tomato Sausage Soup with Mozzarella will warm your belly and make your house smell incredible this weekend as the temperatures take a deep dive. Serve it with some crusty bread for dipping – try my Easy Dutch Artisan Bread on my website @d…

Appearances of March

Appearances of March

The morning was beautiful then March settled upon us, dull March, endless March. Two years ago, the fields were white, evenly blanketed, bisected by ribbons of sun-warmed New England granite, pulled from the land so many decades ago when it w…

Snow? Is that still a thing?

Snow? Is that still a thing?

“I love the pure thick-flaked and heavy white snow coming down at a rapid rate of two inches per hour and I look forward to getting up early so I can shovel out my cars and sidewalks,” said no one, ever.

The fuel for writing

The fuel for writing

To get a bunch of words inked up on a blank page, and have them make some sense requires practice and a basic human need that many of us share. Human beings are curious to a degree; as a result, we will simply ask a question because we want a…

Chicken cutlets that will make you pucker up

Chicken cutlets that will make you pucker up

These chicken cutlets are comfort food with an addictive lemony cream sauce that will make your family pucker up and kiss the cook! Mix it up and instead of your go-to grain rice, serve them over barley or farro. Deeeeelish!

Rebecca in February

Rebecca in February

There have been years Rebecca has sported a Patriots’ number 12 jersey after the Super Bowl, others when her base has been piled with snow plowed from the street, white mounds laced with dirt and sand. This year her basins sport red hearts fo…

That was then; this is now

That was then; this is now

In 1960, my sister Janey and I rigged up a sailing pram on Greenwich Bay. She was a leaky and sketchy little rig called the What, Me Worry? Ahem, remember Mad Magazine? The learning curve was very steep but my sister Janey and I got the main …

Color in the Waves

Color in the Waves

The sun is moving out of the south, the winter sun that sets the bluffs ablaze, turns a rock-strewn beach Mars-red. In the morning it hits the wall just over my head when a month ago it was falling in at a different angle, turning the corner …

The weather line runs right through here

The weather line runs right through here

The last day of January is usually the one when the sun rises before — or at — 7 a.m. and sets a tad after 5 p.m. February inevitably brings a wave of renewed cold, snow, a storm, but days are getting longer.