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Nantucket Island was formed by an ancient glacier and continues to change with the ocean. In this commentary, Ian Petty remembers when he first realized…
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My father loomed over my athletic life, and I suppose he still does. He is long gone, dead almost twenty years now, but he lives on in me in middle age…
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When I finished my medical internship, I decided to take violin lessons. My life had become defined by a career that threatened to consume all my time and…
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Not long ago, I was having dinner with some people from work, enjoying eggplant smothered in rich tomato sauce, sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Disrupting…
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Some people still believe that being gay is a choice. That young men and women can choose to be heterosexual; the way God meant them to be. When prom time…
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Strangers come up to Shelley and me and ask if we’re sisters. Shelley has light brown hair with more curls than she’d like, and only a hint of gray. Her…
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Every morning when I go to open my laptop my husband has not hidden the fact that he was there the night before. He goes to sleep two hours after me and…
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The other day while driving down to Vineyard Haven I tuned into one of my favorite NPR radio talk shows. The topic was grief, grieving and comeback. The…
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I used to see every January first as the day the newest year’s model of ME would appear in the showroom. I think we all tend to do that to a greater or…
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The holidays can be rife with stress about gift giving and endless lists. Dr. Natalie Mariano writes to us about her Christmas shopping list. It's a short…