Suprise Me

I know how lucky we are to own the home that we do on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles off the coast of Cape Cod. (Holmes Coffin House.) It is well-situated in the Historic District of Edgartown. We walk to almost everything. But getting to the island can be challenging, particularly this season,… Read More

What can a six year old really get out of foreign travel? Read More

There's always the Google machine. Read More

I’ll take a clean, business-like, functioning, reliable, no nostalgia Hilton Garden Inn anytime/anywhere. Read More

When I was little, Susan and the Rain was one of my favorite books. Of course it was partly because my name is Susan, but also because I hated the rain. Here’s how it starts: Susan Amantha Cottonwood   was a little girl      who was always good –         when the sun… Read More

Mom used to joke that I had "the attention span of a gnat." Read More

Time stopped. We stepped out. Read More

Half of what’s in our fridge today, I hadn’t even heard of in 1965! Read More

Parking, never a problem for me at college, but work at Lockheed was different. Read More

This is about another person’s temptation, a very little person. I was getting some provisions in between snowstorms and was riding up and down the aisles of a large grocery store in one of those electric carts. I had paused to read some labels. Around the corner in front of me come a mom and… Read More