Commentary
I have felt for many years that on Martha’s Vineyard, I belong.
The significance of age 60 / Is to be young again / Without the weight of youth / So it is with Barack Obama.
It’s been many years since I last went to the Gay Head Cliffs at dawn on August 6 for the annual Hiroshima Remembrance Day ceremony.
Of all the stages of life that I have experienced, the one I find myself in now may be the most interesting and perhaps the most challenging.
As a heat dome persists over the American West, an untamable wildfire rages over southern Oregon and record hot temperatures and water shortages make life in the West difficult, floods in much of Europe — Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, parts of England and now China — have also had a devastating effect.
The pedestrian path under con struction around Sunset Lake in Oak Bluffs reminds me of my favorite walk of childhood summers.