Inner Voices
TEACAKE’S TAKE
The Uncool
WATERCOLOR
Rise or Fall
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Guest of This Age
Living in a time that we are not prepared for
In the heat of July, I found myself dazed and confused, and I remain so still. I have no idea what is going on with this whirling planet of ours […]
OP-ED
A Cucumber for Breakfast
What if there had been no vegetable garden this year?
The first thing I ate this morning was a $60 cucumber. I washed it and set it on a cutting board, contemplating how best to use something that seemed so […]
INCIDENTALLY
No Quesadillas?
We were having lunch on the upper deck of the Bookstore Restaurant in Wellfleet on a fine day in July. At the next table was a family with three young […]
VIGNETTE
Leap of Faith
STEAMERS
Shark Bank
CIVIL RIGHTS
The Narrowing of the Public Square
An ominous decision from the Supreme Court on serving same-sex couples
The Supreme Court’s June decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, allowing businesses to refuse to serve same-sex couples based on religious objections, took me back to a day in […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Inherent Worth of Being
An encounter with an insect leads to a revelation
What was I reading that day outside at the café that made me so quiet inside myself? I cannot recall, but I remember the feeling of stillness and receptivity, as […]
INCIDENTALLY
Come From Away
A couple of years ago, my husband and I decided to take a February weekend getaway in Provincetown. We booked an inn — the Brasswood, lovely — and made the […]
VIGNETTE
Save the Wildlife
STEAMERS
Respect of the Dead
INKLINGS
Downtown, Family Week
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
You Are What You Eat
The challenge, as Thoreau said, is to ‘live deliberately’
On a warm, cloudless morning, I am crouched in the underbrush, the only sounds in the woods the song of a pine warbler, the whine of a mosquito, and the […]
