You are three years old. You’ve just had a good dinner and some milk and cookies, brushed your teeth, been tucked into bed, and now Mom or Dad pulls up […]
Commentary
VIGNETTE
Sun Globes
Sun Globes by Daniel Dejean
SKETCHBOOK
Great Horned Owl
‘Can you hear me?’ asks the great horned owl. We can.
In the deep January nights, when the light of the Wolf Moon falls like ringing iron through the trees, from Tom’s Hill and Cathedral Hill on either side of the […]
SUGGESTION BOX.
Suggestion Box by Mary DeAngelis
STEAMERS
When The Wild Doesn’t Call
NATURA VIVA
Witch Hazel
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Watching a Red Supergiant Die
One of Orion’s stars could blow any time now, or in 100,000 years
Betelgeuse — the star with the funny name. Maybe you know it from the 1988 movie Beetlejuice, about the eponymous poltergeist-for-hire. Or maybe you’ve heard the name in the news […]
the year-rounder
‘How Slight a Shelter’
What would Thoreau have made of 2020 Cape Cod?
Henry David Thoreau’s residency, starting in 1845, in a 10-by-15-foot shack next to Walden Pond for two years, two months, and two days is generally considered by scholars as a […]
Summer of '43
Little Joe Gould Arrives in Truro
A child’s life becomes less normal when a bohemian comes to town
little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn’t know where to find them(and found a secondhand set which click)little gould used to amputate his appetite with bad brittle candy […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
So Much to Love, So Little Time
“Teacake’s Take on Romance” by Ellen LeBow
VIGNETTE
Amphibian Love
Vignette by Daniel Dejean
METAPHYSICS
The Short-Lived Loves of Local Squid
While males get distracted, females sneak in multiple mates
Squid appeared maybe 700 million years ago. They predate everything we think of as ancient — sharks, fish, and even trees. But they don’t predate sex. That invention happened about […]
STEAMERS
“Gumshoe Crab”
Gumshoe Crab by A. Crock
SKETCHBOOK
East Harbor, North Truro
East Harbor, North Truro by Mark Adams
UNIMPEACHABLE
What Free Speech Looks Like
Photography by Jamie Demetriou
