Commentary
STEAMERS
Ding-A-Ling
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Robert Finch: An Appreciation
In his essays, the essence of the Cape Cod life
Walking with my dog on an East End beach one breezy, overcast afternoon, I encountered two young men engaged in a photo shoot, complete with props, just above the tide […]
VIGNETTE
Peaceable Kingdom
STEAMERS
Raw Deal
QUEER ‘I’
The Provincetown Beauty Myth
On beauty and my broken brain, from Circuit Week to townie summer
I’ve been finding it difficult to write about Provincetown. This is, in part, because there already exists so much writing about the place. The territory is already charted. This town […]
VIGNETTE
Ready for the Storm
STEAMERS
Fat Rats
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Matters of the Mind and Body
Can they remain in sync into old age?
Last night a young friend (almost 27) said to me, “I am an old soul.” Those words got me thinking. Not about the soul — God help me from ever […]
VIGNETTE
Flight of the Drinking Birds
STEAMERS
Art Supply Desert
VIGNETTE
Dangerous Curve
STEAMERS
Taking Flight
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Saving Land
The task is huge, and we are small
Somewhere in my disheveled archives sits a tattered yellow news clipping from the New York Times, circa 1980, that was pinned to the bulletin board over my desk for decades. […]