The Lagoon Pond is the second largest estuary on Martha’s Vineyard and the most impaired of all the Island’s ponds.

Even though summer is officially over my mind keeps taking me back to a summer like I’ve never seen on the Vineyard in all the years I’ve visited as a guest and as a seasonal resident.

Did you have any heroes when you were nine years old? I did and his name was Robin Jackson.

As we move from summer to fall I’m reminded of how in the early spring I was contemplating transitions and change.

Four and a half years ago, I took to task the Martha’s Vineyard NAACP over a matter that goes to the heart of the organization’s work.

When I was seven years old, my parents thought it wise to send their only child to eight weeks of summer camp, to know life in close company with other children.