I sat in the dark with two friends on the wet sand at Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet on the evening of July 4th. To our left, fireworks lit up […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Warming Trend
STEAMERS
The Spirit of Justice
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Loss of Enchantment
The pink river dolphins don’t dance anymore
I think I might have been around 16 years old, so my cultural indoctrination was well underway. For years, I had been a devotee of Jacques Cousteau and his beautiful […]
VIGNETTE
Seasonal Wildlife 101
STEAMERS
Cultural Currency
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Painting on the Seawall
The beauty of an act of public artmaking
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 […]
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. […]
