In December, I kept hearing the familiar Irving Berlin tune: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know….” Of course, what we had was […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Extra Cheese
SPECIAL DELIVERY
Suggestions From a Mail Enthusiast
She wants you to raise those little flags on your mailbox
I love my job. I get to deliver mail to people in the town where I live in all its splendor, all year round. The summer traffic is intense, and […]
STEAMERS
Son of a Beach
ACTIVISM
Bayard Rustin
“I ask that if you teach your children one new name from the heroes of black history, please let it be Bayard Rustin,” wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The […]
VIGNETTE
Angry Birds
STEAMERS
No Shot Novak
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In an Outer Cape Bubble
How can it be that we are so far out of the mainstream?
I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]
STEAMERS
Getting Away
VIGNETTE
In Fashion
COUNTY LINE
Stuck in Virtual Reality
Learning, reluctantly, to work together remotely
I’m a meeting guy. I have always been motivated to get together in a room with others and work to find collaborative solutions to the issues of the day. Serving […]
VIGNETTE
First Steps, 2022
SKETCHBOOK
On Being in the Presence of a Whale
Curiosity, awe, and guilt inspire a ritual for an animal lost at sea
It’s been more than a month since a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore, dead, on the inner beach near Long Point Light in Provincetown. News like this circulates and the […]
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
A Heritage of Nicknames
Reflections of a time when Dutras and Silvas were ‘as thick as the air’
A small notice in the Nov. 18 edition of this paper caught my eye and started me thinking. It announced a memorial for Joe Corea, a good man. The notice […]
DOWN THE LINE
Am I a Surfer?
Fear, brain freeze, and the joy of the ride
I surf, but I hesitate to call myself a surfer. I have a complicated relationship with the sport — I love it, and I am terrified by it. It’s been […]
