In a normal time, when summer arrives vacation plans roll in. But since this is not a normal time our plan this summer is to go nowhere.

Two Vineyard friends died recently — Betty Eddy on June 30, eight days after she turned 100, and Phronsie Conlin on July 9, the day before her 101st birthday.

As early as 1987, the National Association for the Education of Young Children was writing about what is known as the child care trilemma.

In 1983 when Shirley Mayhew of West Tisbury was 58, she decided it was time to experience travel as more than a tourist.

Lindsey Davis, the main character in Julia Spiro’s debut novel Someone Else’s Secret, is at loose ends in 2009.

John’s ladder lies waiting. A poem and an appreciation for John Moffet,who died June 27.