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 […]
Inner Voices
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 […]
VIGNETTE
Art Colony
STEAMERS
Sea Town
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 […]
