Inner Voices
LOCAL COLOR
Augustitis
WATERCOLOR
Mugshot
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Being With Whales
Why are people so drawn to these wild creatures?
You know what you’re doing, but do you know why you’re doing it? How often do we really think about our actions? How conscious are we of our motivation? We […]
INCIDENTALLY
Emotional Minimalism
When my now-35-year-old son, Jesse, was 18 months old I carried him out onto the flats at the Audubon Sanctuary. It was a warm September day, gray sky, gray sand, […]
VIGNETTE
Business Unusual
STEAMERS
Buggins the Conqueror
SANCTUARY
The Peace of Ponds
Leaving the sturm und drang of our burning world behind
When the various weights of our world press at my shoulders, I head to one of Wellfleet’s hidden ponds. At the parking lot at Great, as children yelp and harried […]
INCIDENTALLY
Memories Are Made of Sand
I brought my teenage grandkids to an ocean beach on a hot July afternoon. After we situated our towels, umbrella, and cooler, the kids ran down to the water, and […]
VIGNETTE
Garden Graffiti Artists
STEAMERS
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
TRIBUTE
Josephine Del Deo, By Your Side
The woman behind so much of what Provincetown is fought hard against what it isn’t
Saturday, August 8, 1970 Just got into town yesterday, after quite a few years away. What a lot of exciting changes! Instead of taking boring Route 6, I took the […]
APPRECIATION
Paul Brodeur: A Complex and Creative Life
He was a passionate writer who changed our world for the better
Imagine what went through the head of a cub reporter at the Provincetown Advocate in 1978 when he was informed that Paul Brodeur, the prolific novelist, environmental journalist, and New […]
INCIDENTALLY
Hawk Sighting
While away on vacation last month, I received a text from my neighbor saying that a hawk had managed to get trapped in our screened porch. My husband had witnessed […]
