Nantucket Photos of Summer

Photo Credit: Michele Cardamone Photo Credit: Michele Cardamone Going through security I glanced back at G-Dog and my sister Melanie and waved a tearful goodbye. Why did everything have to come to an end? Was I truly not going to see Melanie again for another year? Why was I leaving my mother on her...

Island Living- Getting into Trouble

  The other evening as we sat around the dinner table G-Dog told us of a recent mishap where her car went missing on the island for, oh about a week. Sounds crazy I know, but it is not uncommon for islanders and their cars to get lost on these back streets of Nantucket. You know how island living can...

Nantucket – I’m Home

We stepped out from the tiny prop plane and I stood for a moment on top of the stairs breathing in the salty air of Nantucket, filled with the scent of Lilies and memories of teenage debauchery. The words from Diddy’s song, “Coming Home,” swimming in my head: “Back where I belong,...

Should Traveling be called Groveling?

Our new word for traveling is officially called groveling. Where do I begin? Yesterday was the most gorgeous day of all as we packed up to sadly leave Nantucket and embark on a horrendous journey of ferries, taxis, planes, shuttles and trains. I should have known, when we almost missed the ferry, that the...

A Night Out on the Town of Nantucket

Waiting for Melanie on a side street The children sat on my bed as I got dressed giving me a thumbs up or down for each outfit that I tried on. I was going with Melanie to a party that was being held for the Nantucket Comedy Festival and afterward we had been invited to see the show, “Don’t Tell Jerry...

Scenes from Cisco Beach on Nantucket

Photos by Ghinson “Wake up,” I said to the boys on the day of the Nantucket Ozone Classic, a surf competition that was founded in honor of the late David “Ozone” Ozias who died in June of 2001 at the young age of thirty. David seems to have been one of those humble guys who was...