I’ve been teaching a workshop, How to Write Your Memoirs, at a retirement community in New Jersey.

In 1967, the average cost of a new car was $2,750 and the average cost of gas was 33 cents a gallon.

Annie Heywood was many things. She was generous, kind, funny, creative and persistent. What she was not was quiet. She was Chappy’s self-appointed town crier.

Most people don’t like fog. Some say it makes them feel gloomy. Others find it scary, but no one bothers to ask the garden.

Old age is not a subject one usually talks about around the dinner table — unless everyone around the dinner table is equally old.

Hokule’a, the famous replica of an ancient Polynesian voyaging canoe, visited Martha’s Vineyard in June of last year.