You should do a play. Maybe you live alone, and maybe you are not loving the way the light dies in late afternoon, when you know there are 15 more hours of aloneness ahead. Maybe you should spend some of that time with other humans, inside a warm theatre, putting together a show.

Maybe the play will be “The Snow Queen,” an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about Gerda, a stout-hearted little girl who takes off on a quest to rescue her friend Kai from the clutches of the creepy if dazzling Snow Queen, and who has many adventures along the way…

Read the full piece in the Vineyard Gazette.

Now that it’s harvest season, I’m curious: How did your garden grow this summer?

Wasn’t it thrilling, in those early days, to watch your vegetable patch begin to come alive? To step into your garden in the dewy dawn and see what magic had transpired during the night, how each brave green shoot had grown a little taller? And then, after only a few weeks, to spot adorable tomatoes and green peppers, no bigger than you might find in a dollhouse kitchen? To peek under a fuzzy leaf and encounter a shy cucumber the size of a p… Continue Reading Garden Growing Pains here.

Is this seat taken? Actually, I’d better sit over here, so you can be on my good-ear side. I’ll hear you much better, especially when the band starts up. I should probably get a hearing aid, but I’m saving up for dental implants… Continue reading Me, Flirting here.