Every year the same thing happens–I’ll be walking to work or down to the shore or some other route I have walked countless times before, and realize that is it summer again. The air is thick and smells like honeysuckle and wild roses. And I’ll think, wasn’t I just dressed in three layers, the cold coming in at the seams, the wind slicing through me? Summer sneaks up on you.

Here are some recent essays that you can listen to on CAI, The Cape and Islands NPR station

June 2023–Strange Season

May 2023–Town Meeting Time

in June, we also held a great Nantucket Book Festival, dedicated to Tharon Dunn, our longtime festival literary chair who died in May. Tharon was a great influence on my reading, and without her I wouldn’t have read as much or as widely.

I interviewed Jessie Greengrass, Betsy Tyler and Julie Gerstenblatt, and facilitated a panel of writers engaging with the climate crisis. Once those videos are online, I’ll post them here!