February 14, 2018 was like any other Wednesday for me. After school, I went with my golden lab and my friend Isabella Youmans on a hike at Caroline Tuthill Preserve.

Fifty years ago I was in line in the cafeteria at Boston University. A radio played in the background, and I heard the stunning news: Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot on the balcony of a Memphis motel.

As we recover from our fourth major winter storm of 2018, it is hard not to look forward to the warmer weather ahead.

At annual town meetings in April and May, Martha’s Vineyard voters will take up the political arguments and questions that have steamed all winter like a pot of thick chowder.

A red pickup hugs the white line.

This year February felt so long that one day when I was bemoaning the weather patterns I looked at a calendar and realized it was actually March 15.