I started thinking about Hiroshima again last month, when John Kerry went to the city. But I usually think about Hiroshima this time of year anyway.

In the film Bull Durham, sports groupie Annie Savoy says: “I believe in the Church of Baseball....I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there’s no guilt in baseball, and it’s never boring.”

Every year, 40 per cent of the food grown in this country is never eaten. The waste happens in farm fields, during processing and transportation, in grocery stores, restaurants, and in our homes.

On the last Sunday in May for the past 28 years, I have been listening to the reading in the Federated Church of the names of those Edgartown men who served in the Civil War.

Imagine an ocean of islands spanning ten million square miles. Now imagine you must navigate that world without charts or instruments.

On une 2, the Martha’s Vineyard Commission is scheduled to vote on the Lagoon Ridge housing development.