Recently I spent an hour in a paddy wagon in Portland.

My favorite season has arrived again and this year with a pleasing vengeance. Animal tracks are everywhere, inviting identification.

The Chappy ferries come and go, In summer rush and winter snow, ’Twixt Chappy isle and Edgartown, Dukes County’s seat of great renown.

This delightful children’s paperback could be a stocking stuffer if it was smaller.

I like country living, but last Saturday I was not so sure. That was when I opened the hall door that gives access through a cat door to my two gold and white cats.

The recent upheaval around Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has reminded me of my 1996 visit to that southern African nation, formerly Rhodesia.