Inner Voices
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Tide Line Mystery
On being confronted with a simple, inexplicable occurrence.
We all live our lives where the sea meets the land, and it does so every day, twice a day. This meeting is foreordained — it is an encroachment really […]
VIGNETTE
Spring
STEAMERS
Weed Whacked
KEEPING WATCH
Either Way: Taking a Broader View of Human Variation
Reflections of a retired English teacher
In 1969, when I was 19 and rode a motorcycle, there was a highway sign on Route 6 in North Truro alerting drivers that they could get to Provincetown by […]
OP-ED
Giving Before We Take
A prescription: notice what the trees and terns seem to know
I found myself skipping out to the mailbox on a recent bright day. Skipping is not as easy as it used to be, but the drive is long, and I […]
VIGNETTE
Daylight Savings Time
STEAMERS
Happy Spring!
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Away With Me
A meditation on ‘advance planning’
I knew there were not enough dead people in Provincetown to make their disposal profitable. I discovered recently that the same is true for Wellfleet. (Forget Truro — it’s a […]
WINTER DREAMS
Marching On
Waking up is an experience to be treasured
I had a performer’s dream the other night. I was in a play, nodding off in my dressing room during a long offstage hiatus. I heard lines on the performance […]
VIGNETTE
Checking the Weather
WATERCOLOR
Ninth Circle
RESTORATION QUESTIONS
Herring River Project Involves Losses and Risks
Questions remain about liability and unintended consequences
The Herring River Restoration Project, which has been in the planning stage for decades, has finally begun. The clearing of dead vegetation in the Duck Harbor basin is underway as […]
MISMANAGEMENT
What Wellfleet Deserved
How the select board should have reacted to the town’s accounting crisis
A while ago I swore that I would put Wellfleet’s financial troubles out of my mind and not write another letter to the Independent about this mess like the one […]
