http://monomoyick.com Nec temere, nec timide Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's always so much going on here in the summer that typically I would take three months off from any creative work. Winter is good for that on Cape Cod. You either get yourself a project to work on for nine months, or develop a drinking problem. Some people decide ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/07/23/run-for-your-lives/ In response to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' video "Tagging a Great White Shark" (featuring Greg Skomal), the crew of Hit and Run History heads out on the waters of Chatham to see if they can do better. It wasn't that hard. This is what we do. Become a fan of Hit and Run ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/07/22/hit-and-run-history-goes-after-the-sharks/ This summer, as we've done for the past couple years, we'll take the small boat with the flaking paint job and semi-reliable outboard motor out the Oyster Pond, down the river, around the corner of Stage Harbor and into Nantucket Sound. Hugging the coast of Morris Island, we'll head east ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/06/25/the-common-flat/ “They keep feeling like long weekends,” Sofie said this Monday morning as she picked up her backpack and headed out the door.  “Why?” I remember the first time she uttered the dreaded three-letter word.  It was my birthday a few years back, and she was just getting into her evening bubble ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/05/21/why-we%e2%80%99re-here/ I've already written about the scheme of the regional school with Harwich, and how simply bigger is only, well, bigger. Not better. Still, money has been spent on this because the state is pushing all districts to try regionalization, and Harwich needs a new high school. At this upcoming annual ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/04/15/regional-school-%e2%80%93-really/ Yes, this year I got behind on pulling the boat.  I usually run a little late on getting it out before the Oyster Pond (a salt water inlet off Nantucket Sound) freezes over.  This fall, however, preparations for and the trip to Cape Verde took over my schedule.  And then ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/01/29/pulling-the-boat/ Sofie's still the one to turn off the television before me. Unless there's something for supper she doesn't want. I will admit her watching has increased from a couple years ago. At six and a half, she deserves some indulgence in TV watching, especially on crummy, rainy, cold days. I was ... http://monomoyick.com/2010/01/24/the-family-channel/ There’s a conversation that continues to come back to me, nine years after it took place in the downstairs meeting room of the Chatham Town Offices. The topic up for discussion was vehicle passage on North Beach. At the time, the beach was, of course, still a peninsula. The ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/12/10/driveway/ A long haul, but worth it. TACV, the Cape Verde national airlines, is the only airline flying direct to Fogoin the  Cape Verde from Boston. All others, costing at least half again more, run via European cities like Portugal. The drawback, though, is the limited twice-weekly schedule. Tuesdays and Fridays only. ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/11/16/hit-and-run-history-arrives-in-cape-verde/ I’m trying to remember spring cleanup, but with the way the weather was this past summer, it was hard to separate the two seasons. Regardless, with the onset of colder weather prompting a change in Sofie’s wardrobe, and dogs being more inside now (with attendant vacuuming), it is definitely ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/10/15/fall-cleanup/