Throwing Paint
Reimagining a life in retirement on Nantucket

Our Loving Community--Food from 7 Banned Countries
CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF NANTUCKET
We are all immigrants unless we are Native American. Whether we came to America many generations ago or we came months...

Write and film your Experiences with Love, Loss, and What You Wore
MY LATEST PROJECT AND HOW YOU CAN HELP
As some of you know, one of the highlights of my year was being in the Nantucket Theater Workshop production of Nora...

TEXAS THROUGH THE EYES OF A NANTUCKETER
A NANTUCKETER VISITS ROCKPORT, TEXAS
Last year, I wrote an article about seeing Nantucket through the fresh eyes of my friend Kathryn—a visitor from Texas--...
A NANTUCKETER VISITS ROCKPORT, TEXAS
Last year, I wrote an article about seeing Nantucket through the fresh eyes of my friend Kathryn—a visitor from Texas--...

Live Conversation with Astronaut Shane Kimbrough
NASA COMES TO NANTUCKET
Nantucket may be a small island thirty miles off the coast of Massachusetts, but the educational opportunities that it provides for...
A Community Christmas Celebration
Christmas in Nantucket
I missed Christmas Stroll this year. I was in Rhode Island taking care of grandchildren while my daughter and her husband celebrated...

TAKING AND LEAVING--LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY
THE JOYS OF THE “TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT,” BETTER KNOWN AS THE MADAKET MALL
Anyone who knows Nantucket knows the “Madaket Mall”--also known as the “Take it or...

The Pleasure, Pain, and Peril of an Overactive Imagination
THE PLEASURE, PAIN, AND PERIL OF AN OVER-ACTIVE IMAGINATION
Please excuse this for being two days late. I needed an final answer to this before I published...

From the African Serengheti to the Bamboo Forest to the English Moors, Nantucket has Amazing Bio-Diversity
YOU ARE NOT JUST IN NANTUCKET—TRAVEL THE WORLD AS YOU TOUR THE ISLAND
I am constantly amazed by the bio-diversity of Nantucket. Who would have thought that I...

The Two Oldest Nantucket Quaker Burial Grounds
WALKING IN THE QUAKER BURIAL GROUNDS IN NANTUCKET
“I have always enjoyed cemeteries.
Altars for the living as well as resting
places for the dead, they are...

Another Life Reinvention in Nantucket
“You’re never too old to set another goal
or dream a new dream.”
--C.S. Lewis
THROWING PAINT BIG TIME--ANOTHER RE-INVENTION--MY FIRST...

Enduring Friendships
LOBSTER, LOVE, AND LIFE LONG FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET
This week two of my dearest and oldest friends made the long and arduous trip from Los Angeles to Nantucket...