I have arrived ­— again.

Snowflake had been advertised on the Wooden Boat Magazine website for six months when my partner Ana and I decided to look at her on Mount Desert Island in Maine.

Done; the day begun / beside an old woman / with a golden dog scuttering / on a walk by a pier.

Our Jewish community is grieving. Almost all of us have family, friends and colleagues who are living in Israel.

I am writing to set the record straight.