The smell of rosa rugosa is overwhelmingly intoxicating. Did you ever smell anything so sweet? .

The minute I get the Martha’s Vineyard Real Estate Yearbook with home sales by town and neighborhood, I tear through the pages to see what homes sold for in Chilmark where we live.

Here they come. Three vans full. I’m hot. I’m exhausted. And I’m nervous. Camp Jabberwocky shows up in my meadow every year for a lively session of the Chilmark Writing Workshop.

Remember when how you felt was the biggest part of you? When you had a feeling and no matter what your mind said you trusted your gut more?

We all have a million regrets but there is that one we carry around like a sack of cement sitting squarely on the heart. The writer reflects.

My son Dan was sick for 16 years and in those 16 years he got to know me as a human not just as his mom. From his hospital bed perch he spent a lot of time watching me running, doing, planning, phoning and he’d say with that grin of his, slow down, turbo.