Opinion
I’ve been carrying Gerry around for years. Trust me when I say he’s not heavy, not any more, he’s gone from 200 pounds to less than a pound at this point.
My friend and former coworker Gerry Kelly, a jovial, melancholy Irishman, died and was cremated in 1996. He had no known immediate family and although we were not all that close, we shared a love of cooking, the theatre and art.
White Flower Island
No Overtime for Tri-Town Resolution
The magnificent victory of the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals this week had us talking about hockey and ice skating, and the conversation turned as these things will to the question of whether it is easier to skate forwards or backwards. This, it seems, is a matter of opinion, some of which can get quite vehement. Is it a function of the kind of skating you do or how you were trained? Or is there a right-brain, left-brain predisposition at work?
Full Steam
From Gazette editions of June, 1936:
NURSING EXPERTISE
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
I am writing in response to your June 3 article about the hospital emergency room (ER) staffing, specifically concerning comments about nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians assistants (PAs).
Humans are not the boss of nature. Just ask the residents of western Massachusetts, Joplin, Missouri, or Japan. On the Vineyard we are at the constant mercy of wind, waves, storms and tides. Someone once said that when land and water wrestle, water always wins. That’s why it was refreshing to hear talk, at an erosion control workshop on the Island last week, of erosion management as opposed to erosion control.