Thanksgiving may be in the rear view mirror, but the spirit of thankfulness is still alive and well here on Nantucket. Many on the island (and around the country) took to their Facebook pages or Twitter feeds and spent November documenting their personal “30 days of gratitude.” Although I did not publicly join in the […]
Merriam-Webster defines a petticoat as a garment characteristic or typical of women…a feminine article of clothing traditionally worn under a longer skirt. The modern day women of Nantucket, while no longer sporting petticoats, are at once feminine and edgy…smart and sassy…entrepreneurial and industrious. In short, there is nothing “typical” about them. They are determined to honor the contribution […]
Click photo to view Halloween gallery Remember the scene from the Wizard of Oz when the Wizard presents a ticking red heart to the Tin Man and suggests that “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others?” If there is a sliver of truth […]
For those of us in the Baby Boomer generation and beyond, the phrase “Family Affair” brings to mind the 1960’s sitcom of the same name. The dashing and debonair Uncle Bill is charged with raising his brother’s three young children. A daunting task for a successful corporate bachelor, manageable only with the assistance of his “right […]
Click photo to view gallery of Restaurant Week Indulgence! Anna Thomas, the highly acclaimed author of several cookbooks, including the popular “Love Soup” once said, “We all eat and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” When you’re lucky enough to visit or live on Nantucket the odds are incredibly slim you’ll […]
The fresh and funny author Alexandra Potter writes in her entertaining The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather, “My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling […]
I have a favorite picture frame displayed prominently on my desk with an engraved quote that reads, “Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” The special moment preserved in this frame is one of all of my children gathered together on Cisco Beach on a […]
It’s been said, “You don’t know what you don’t know, but when you do know you have to do something about it.” When Darcy Creech, founder and CEO of Peter Beaton Inc of Nantucket, visited a child named Joyce in the tiny village of Olkolili, Tanzania in 2010, she discovered something she did not know…Joyce […]
Merriam Webster defines a trench as “a place, position, or level at which an activity is carried on in a manner likened to trench warfare – often used in the phrase in the trenches.” The very nature of the word trench conjures up images of hard labor…digging, sweating and digging some more. It also implies […]
Last week, as the news stations flooded our television screens and mobile devices with gloom and doom stories of crash landed airplanes and politicians behaving badly we found a glimmer of hope as word came across the ticker that a royal bundle of joy would soon arrive on the scene. Even as we went about […]
