Inner Voices
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Summer Invasion
Walks, guts, family meals, and important small moments
I have been away from my desk. Instead of writing a column, I took a child for a walk on the beach. It was early morning low tide. She is […]
OP-ED
Doreen Mathilde Crow: Origins
The birth of a found-object scarecrow in an Eastham garden
I was surprised — and delighted — to see my scarecrow on the front page of the Provincetown Independent’s July 22 issue. Readers might enjoy the story behind the creation […]
BLUEBERRY HILL
The Things We Worried Would Ruin Truro
SKETCHBOOK
Hermit Crab Housing Crisis
VIGNETTE
Plan Bee
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Summer
STEAMERS
Fudge It!
COUNTY LINE
The Covid Cluster: What We Must Do Now
We cannot be ‘back to normal,’ no matter how much we want to be
We had been so careful, keeping our distance, and doing all the right containment measures. Then came an explosive Delta-variant Covid outbreak in Provincetown. For a while, case counts doubled […]
VIGNETTE
Social Distancing
REPRIEVE
Take Me Out
Rooting for the home team at Eldredge Park
Take me out to the ball game Last week, for my wife’s birthday, we went to an Orleans Firebirds baseball game. It was a beauteous evening, the skies clear, with […]
VIGNETTE
Bumper Crop
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Idle Times, Good Trouble
The trials of an itinerant climate kibbitzer
I have the greatest respect for John Kerry, our former senator, presidential candidate, and now President Biden’s special envoy for climate. But I must disagree with him on one significant […]
