As you know, I am very vocal about social issues. This Thanksgiving I would like to bring to everybody’s attention the ongoing tragedy of...

We have a new freight ferry boat for Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, the M/V Barnstable. Pics and info at my Facebook ferries page . I...

I was recently back in my hometown of Martha’s Vineyard and had a chance to visit the Martha’s Vineyard Museum. Like any Vineyard kid, of...

A couple of upcoming events for my friends on Martha’s Vineyard: My friend Barry Rosenthal made a lovely hour-long documentary, The...

Yesterday in our neighborhood I saw a tree-trimming truck with a worker up in the “cherry picker.” This reminded me of the orange...

Here’s one for my hometown peeps. With the new year came time to put the 2024 calendar on my office wall—the Vineyard Calendar, of...

Happy new year everybody! My new year is already going great because I found the above picture aboard the old Martha’s Vineyard and...

We are getting the remnants of a rare hurricane here in Southern California (you may have heard). So far it’s just like any winter...

Of this writing I am about to take our girls to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. But today’s column is not about that film. Or...

I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer in the name of my stepfather, Herb Putnam. The charity is PanCan and they are fantastic....

Hello Friends. I am raising money to fight pancreatic cancer, which took my stepfather, HERB PUTNAM, in 2008. He was only 59. Herb was...

When I was a kid growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we lived at the end of a long dirt road in the woods. So a few times a year, when there...

Above: Mytoi Gardens in Chappaquiddick—a location I would love to use! I’ve been talking for some months about an indie comedy–drama I...

Some readers might know—because I’ve talked about it enough—I want to make an indie film on Martha’s Vineyard. So I was interested to see...

Hard to believe 2022 is coming to a close. I was born in 1974, and our twin girls were born in 2014, so I’ve been mentally tracking their...

I am enjoying watching the World Cup, as I usually do. I look forward to the final match tomorrow. The passing is so sophisticated, and I...

Growing up on Martha’s Vineyard felt very safe. We never used to lock the house—I don’t even remember seeing our house keys—and we’d...

My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...

The great author and historian David McCullough has died. He was a longtime West Tisbury resident, so when we read one of his books in...

This is a picture of my stepdad, Herb Putnam, who we lost to pancreatic cancer in 2008. (He sort of looked like Sam Neill.) We miss him...