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“Concrete and steel go together like chocolate and peanut butter.” —Bill Rose, President of Block Island Concrete Co. Sometimes words and observations can come out of a person’s mouth and grab me so fast that I need to ask them to please repeat them...

It is winter, still, by the calendar. The vernal equinox comes early, in late morning on the twentieth of March, a whole week after we have “sprung ahead” I feel obligated to note. The world makes less and less sense. It is the end of winter, the...

Beware the ides of March – not! With all due respect to Shakespeare: celebrate the ides of March – the first full moon in a new year. Sparing the reader a long, complicated treatise on ancient calendars, let’s just accept the premise that the only...

It had bald tires, it ran on about four cylinders and was an eyesore. The van was modified for Ernie Woolf, a guy I surfed with in Point Judith, Rhode Island. He was about 6-foot 4-inches, and wanted to stand upright in this rig to put on his...

Sunday, it was gray when I left the Harbor Church after worship. By the time I reached the Seaside I had either driven down into the fog or it had deepened: the Surf was clouded by gray. Turning down the Neck Road it was a wall, none of that rolling...

The electrical potential or voltage of a battery is dictated by its chemistry. There is a specific range of operating voltages over which each type of chemical cell operates. For example, the nominal voltage of a lead-acid battery cell is...

Walking Block Island roads and trails is more interesting than many people think. Most animals walk with great purpose: searching for food, a cool spot from the heat, a desire to mate, or not be eaten by a predator. For me, walking is more spiritual...

Thirty years ago there was a snowstorm on the vernal equinox. I remember it well, I was transitioning from a typewriter to a computer with a word processor and misfiled the piece I had written and had to re-write it. Which, because it was all new, I...

This New England winter has me dreaming of warm summer days and backyard barbecues, so I whipped up a baked version of the best sticky, finger-lickin’ delicious barbecued chicken with a cool, zingy slaw to satisfy my craving! Barbecued Chicken and...

Sunday, 6:03 p.m. The time of the photo, taken on February 20. Sunsets have their own glory on the east side of the island and in middling-toward-late February it is the aftermath, the light lingering so much after the sky would have been dark in...