That bleak morning just before Christmas, Provincetown was set back on its haunches by a roaring winter wind and a surging southeast 11-foot-plus tide. The beach and abutting properties glistened […]
Inner Voices
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Midwinter Promise of Imbolc
Trusting the yet to be seen
New Year in Scotland, known as Hogmanay, arguably from Old French, Norse, and/or Goidelic, is a very big deal. Several nights of partying, fireworks, the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” […]
VIGNETTE
No More Tears
STEAMERS
The Price Isn’t Right
COUNTY LINE
Self-Governance in the Assembly
A new session may offer a refreshing model of collaboration
Every two years, the voters in every town on the Cape elect delegates to the Barnstable County Assembly, our county’s legislative body. The new session of the Assembly just begun […]
VIGNETTE
Half Price
STEAMERS
Howland St. Lighthouse
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ugly Ornaments
An odd holiday ritual finds joy in the grotesque
OK, the holidays are over. We made it to the new year, Christmas is almost two weeks behind us, and we are all done with it: like a way-too-sweet piece […]
COMPLAINT DEPT.
Hey Daniel Dejean
Hey Daniel Dejean
TEACAKE’S TAKE
The New Year
PREVENTING VIOLENCE
The Unfulfilled Promise of Community Mental Health Care
An argument for taking action to treat those who refuse help
This year has brought a reckoning with the ways our health and legal systems fail those with mental illnesses and their families. The tragic deaths of Truro’s Susan Howe and […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Resolve to Put One Foot in Front of the Other
And maybe you’ll notice those mountains are only molehills after all
Those of us lining up resolutions for 2023 had best get ready for a strong headwind. Which means keeping in mind that progress, while it may seem to be temporarily […]
VIGNETTE
Solstice
THE LAPSED
Home for the Holidays
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Ebenezer Scrooge Revisited
There is a bit of this classic misanthrope in most of us
It is time to confess: you have never actually read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This work is so ingrained in our culture that it lives in the collective subconscious, […]
