Inner Voices
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, […]
LETTER FROM ACROSS THE POND
The Blessing of the Shearwaters
Late on a fall day, an unpredictable wonder of the sea is revealed
In Edinburgh, the cherry trees have lost their leaves. Golden and carnelian-colored, they carpet the grass and fill the gutters like heaps of slender sunset fish. We will watch the […]
VIGNETTE
Family Selfie
STEAMERS
Hell Care
OP-ED
A Prayer for Unlearning
We are all called to the mission of creating lessons of acceptance
We woke up to the news of another mass shooting on Sunday, Nov. 20, this time in a gay club in Colorado Springs. I cannot stop thinking about it, although […]
COUNTY LINE
Respiratory Illnesses Threaten Health-Care Systems
Covid, flu, and RSV stress hospital staff
We have become accustomed to living in the Age of Covid. Even blasé about it. For almost three years, we have faced existential threats from potentially every person we come […]
VIGNETTE
All Is Calm, All Is Bright
STEAMERS
Jolly Folly
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Bulkheads: A Provincetown History
The growth of waterfront fortifications in a changing town
The other day a big wind came directly from the south, and the waves in the harbor were high and crazy. At high tide, spray broke over Route 6A by […]
