I have noticed, when facing various situations that have multiple possible outcomes I tend to ruminate on the negative possibilities.

Wendell Berry wrote: “If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.”

This summer, the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club will be commemorating their centennial and honoring their founder, Agnes D. Meikleham.

they’d never been there in the summer before when the white morning sky burns the mist like snowy cinders

When you lose your partner, tasks envelop you in that first year. Change your bank accounts, send death certificates to Social Security and some credit card issuers and, yes, you also have to get rid of things.

Great-grand-daughter of a Vineyard whaling captain, daughter of a West Tisbury poet and a New Jersey educator renowned for his Island linoleum block prints, longtime West Tisbury bed and breakfast proprietor, mystery book writer and writing teacher, Cynthia Riggs has now written not only of her Vineyard years but of much more.