By my reckoning, this is my 73rd column for this paper. My first, in the inaugural issue, was printed under the heading “The Year-Rounder,” as has every column since then. […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Know Your Enemy
GRAMMAR WATCH
Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk
The value of learning and agreeing to the rules
Browsing a New York Times newsletter, I have to stop and re-read several times before confirming, via Google, my sense that the writer has gotten it wrong. The line in […]
OP-ART
Please let the girls go to school
VIGNETTE
Cold Shoulder Season
STEAMERS
Plan C Plane
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Sal Del Deo’s 75 Provincetown Years
The Red Inn will host a Sunday afternoon with a town treasure
According to Salvatore Del Deo, the first shellfish warden hired in Provincetown, back in the 1950s, was a retired Portuguese fisherman named Joe Ventura. Before that, Joe had worked intermittently […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Does Hope Lurk in Your Pandora’s Box of a Heart?
Under a full Moon lunar eclipse in Scorpio, suss out the stuff within
While the full Moon may be dramatic in itself, layer on a lunar eclipse and it’s a full-on Greek tragedy — or comedy, depending on how you look at things. […]
STEAMERS
86* Bradford
MOTHER’S DAY
Learning to Be the Parent My Child Needs
A mother’s call to stand up and stop the haters
It was four days before my son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This […]
VIGNETTE
Town Meeting
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Just Another Manic Mercury
The first rock’s second retrograde waffles between Gemini and Taurus
Mercury retrograde gets a heavy rap, but it’s really not so bad. Sure, when the planet of comms and tech turns tail in the sky, we might experience life on […]
VIGNETTE
This One’s Affordable
TRURO TOWN MEETING
For an Appointed Planning Board
The current elected board continues to advance an anti-housing agenda
As a lifelong Cape Codder striving to make a life in this community, I believe Truro must take bold steps to stem the housing crisis. That starts with fostering a […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Where Does Courage Come From?
Shocked out of normalcy, our true selves are revealed
This morning I awoke after a good night’s sleep. After a hot shower, I had a hearty breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee, while I perused a magazine […]
