http://monomoyick.com Nec temere, nec timide Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:55:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ So every weekend for the past few weeks we’ve had something to bring the news trucks down.  First it was Hurricane Bill which was forecast likely not to hit us, but more likely to hit us than any other part of the country, which seemed to be good enough.  And ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/09/18/being-the-welcome-mat/ It’s been a funny kind of summer.  At the end of every year, is the recycling of news that tries to put what is going on now – RIGHT NOW – into a larger context of twelve months.  But that is really so much hoopla, with questionable value to the ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/08/20/summer-2009-in-review/ Series tracking the American Heart of Darkness picks Woods Hole Scientist for second episode Their Open Call has netted a marine scientist from Woods Hole. Fresh off a successful summer of screenings, Hit and Run History has chosen Rita Oliveira Monteiro to join them as they travel to Cape Verde this fall. ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/08/17/new-crew-for-hit-and-run-history/ “We do not have a housing problem.  We have an income problem.” I was glad to hear this coming from Chatham Selectman Sean Summers recently. In 2001, the first meeting I attended as a newly-minted selectman, outside my own board, was for the affordable housing committee.  I had always been proud of ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/06/11/toward-a-creative-economy/ We finally hauled the new dory out from under the apple tree in the backyard today.  Well, “new” as in new to me.  The dory itself has been around for a few years.  The trailer tires were flat, vines had wrapped themselves around the shaft of the outboard and mold ... http://monomoyick.com/2009/05/15/lessons-of-the-craft/