The last week of October brought fierce winds, broken trees and poles, and power outages. In Provincetown, no one had electricity for the first day, and in large sections of […]
Inner Voices
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Look Back Before You Look Ahead
Prepare now for the Moon’s transition through Taurus
Take a breath before you look ahead, as November will culminate with series of notable celestial events, starting with a Full Moon and partial lunar eclipse in the sign of […]
VIGNETTE
Blowers
STEAMERS
Storm’s a Brewing
SKETCHBOOK
The tides
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Dog on a Beach
The satisfactions of immeasurable love
The British inventor Lord Kelvin famously said that if you can’t measure something, “your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” I heartily disagree. The most important things in […]
VIGNETTE
New Neighbors
LESSONS IN HUMANITY
A Gun Owner Reckons With the Costs of Our Compulsion
And makes a plan to beat a beloved collection into plowshares
I’m a gun owner. I don’t fit the stereotype of a gun-toting Second Amender decked out in camouflage protesting in front of a state capitol — although having grown up […]
STEAMERS
Close Encounters
VIGNETTE
Influencers
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Drinking in Provincetown
On the civic purpose of taverns
Roughly 80 percent of American adults drink alcohol. It is by far the most destructive drug in our society but also the most enjoyed, and many would agree its moderate […]
