Beauty follows us everywhere. The color of the harbor today is blue, the color of the sky above it, blue, too, but paler. Of course, they are just reflections of […]
Inner Voices
INCIDENTALLY
Just Friends
Since my wife and I relocated to Eastham a few years ago we’ve enjoyed finding opportunities to meet other year-rounders. Recently we joined old friends at a Nauset Neighbors event […]
PORTRAIT
Truth Speaks
VIGNETTE
Midsummer
KEEPING WATCH
Holtec Threatens a Common, Open-Access Resource
Reflections of a retired English teacher
We Americans, whether as individual consumers, small-business owners, or CEOs of large corporations, are locked in a free market system that rewards the exploitation of a wide swath of open-access […]
VIGNETTE
Out of Shape
STEAMERS
Par-King
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
To Choose to Tattoo
Discovering the reasons why people decide to decorate their skin
The ungainly spider crab out on our tidal flats decorates its carapace with bits of seaweed, the better to camouflage itself and enhance its role as an ambush predator. Several […]
TAKING BACK CHILDHOOD
Children’s Play in Violent Times
It’s not a stretch to connect the loss of play with the rise in mass shootings
With more than one mass shooting per day since the start of 2023, many of us are asking what causes this extreme violence, most of it perpetrated by young people. […]
INCIDENTALLY
Lawn Care
I heard the lawn mower coming down the gravel driveway. “That’s interesting,” I thought. I hadn’t heard that noise before, but I’m a new tenant in this North Truro apartment […]
VIGNETTE
Feeling the Breeze
STEAMERS
Lib-Hard
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Menstrual Minstrel Visits Scotland
Jay Critchley and Lady Tampon Liberty ask, ‘Have we lost our desire for eternity?’
Scotland was the first country in the world to mandate the free provision of period products, and so it was a most fitting place for the second annual conference of […]
INCIDENTALLY
Nanna to Nanna
I took a walk the other morning, setting out from my East End home with a neighbor to catch up, return library books, and get my 10,000 steps in. We […]
