What have I done? I’m sitting at my desk, looking at a furiously flapping pigeon that I didn’t think would live through the night.

This summer Nancy’s Restaurant in Oak Bluffs will mark its 60th year in business. For co-owner Doug Abdelnour it will be an uncertain anniversary.

Fifty years ago, Earth Day took the country by storm, sparked by events like a massive oil spill off Santa Barbara, a river in Ohio catching fire, and the silent spring of pesticides.

Finding bright spots in the darkness. Chapter 3.

A useful coping mechanism in these difficult times is to look for the positives and to write them down.

The world’s greatest museums are a click away.