Reading Like a Writer

Night falls early. Stores and shops have mostly shuttered for the winter. The mercury in the thermometer can barely get out of bed it’s so cold outside. To fight, or maybe perhaps to embrace, the quiet, the solititude, the blues, you know what you’ve been doing. You’ve been writing. But you’ve been keeping it a secret for too long. Time to let your light shine.

Health Insurance

Massachusetts law limits when state residents can buy health insurance. The law applies to individuals and families buying health insurance on their own, outside of an employer’s plan or government-subsidized program. People in this group will have two opportunities to buy health insurance in 2011: Jan. 1 to Feb. 15, and July 1 to August 15. People who are uninsured and need health insurance now are advised to act soon in order to meet the Feb. 15 deadline.

Colony Collapse Disorder: Although not a household name yet, it is a phenomenom affecting the way we live and eat.

Honeybees, an essential link via pollination in the survival chain of hundreds of species of fruits and vegetables, are disappearing all across the planet.

On Sunday, Feb. 13, at the Chilmark Community Center, Slow Food MV will present a screening of The Vanishing of the Bees which documents this mysterious and potentially devastating epidemic. The movie is part of their Bee My Honey Brunch which runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Cultural Luncheon

The Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living is hosting a cultural luncheon from noon until 2 p.m. at the Grill on Main street in Edgartown on Saturday, Jan 29.

The topic for this lunch is the influence and contributions of African Americans on Martha’s Vineyard.

Speakers include Carrie Tankard, Elaine Weintraub and Tom Dresser, author of African Americans on Martha’s Vineyard from Enslavement to Presidential Visit.

Course Helps Families

Deal With Mental Illness

A free family-to-family educational course in Oak Bluffs for family members of individuals with a serious mental illness will begin on Thursday, Feb. 17.

Fibromyalgia Support

The Martha’s Vineyard Fibromyalgia Support Group will have their first meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

For more information and for the location, contact [email protected].