Surfacing on the forward edge of the Aquarian Venus-Mars alignment that will bestow social graces upon us for the next month, the illuminating Sun and dream-weaver Neptune connect in the […]
Inner Voices
INVASION
‘We Need to Stand Together’
A small-town mayor in Ukraine faces the unthinkable
In a one-hour conversation on Tuesday, Bogdan Kelichavyi had to relocate four times. He began our video call in his town hall office in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine but was interrupted almost […]
VIGNETTE
Impatiens
SKETCHBOOK
Year-Rounders Have No Regrets
STEAMERS
Crazy Times
ACTIVISM
Ella Josephine Baker
Drawing by Mary DeAngelis
Ella Baker grew up listening to her grandmother’s stories about life under slavery. Her grandparents bought and farmed land that was part of a North Carolina plantation where they had […]
VIGNETTE
Layering
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
On the Edge
What is legal in our society is not always ethical
Sometimes the truth of a story is found between the lines, between the words, even. Not that the words are not true, but that there is a larger truth behind […]
VIGNETTE
Winter Sales
ACTIVISM
Fannie Lou Hamer
“Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable,” was one of Fannie Lou Hamer’s mantras. She fought passionately against attempts to deny Black people the right to vote. Born […]
ON POLITICS
The Death of Democracy and Capitalism
We live in a system that no longer serves citizens’ needs
Our two most significant institutions, democracy and capitalism, exist today in name only. Our political system has abandoned us, and our economic system has consumed us. Politics and social media […]
VIGNETTE
Ennui
UP A CREEK
Missed Connections
Love found, sometimes, in unexpected places
“The winter is so very cold, and dark, and when the dog leaves the bed to bark at the extended squirrel family in the attic, it leaves me colder, and […]
LOVE NOTES
Four-Legged Valentines, Plus Two Chickens
COUNTY LINE
Dividing the ARPA Millions
Helping neighbors who are having a hard time is a priority
Forty-two million dollars sounds like a pile of money. Until it gets divided up. Across the Cape this month, the glint of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds has […]
