PROVINCETOWN — Recent events have made clear the deep well of discontent in our society, and what appears to be a yawning, unbridgeable division among us. The new president has […]
Inner Voices
STEAMERS
The Smell of Success
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
Mercury Is Retrograde in Aquarius
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
This week’s column is brought to you by Mercury retrograde in Aquarius. While we usually associate this event with interrupted travel plans, issues with technology, and communication breakdowns (Mercury rules […]
VIGNETTE
Drive-in Sunset
OP-ED
Use Rooms Tax Dollars for Housing
Local governments must intervene to solve year-round rental crisis
Over the past two decades, year-round rental apartments have all but vanished on the Outer Cape as their owners have discovered how much more lucrative it is to rent their […]
STEAMERS
Anxiety, Aisle 9
PRIVILEGE
Covid Gets Me off the Hook
Confronting a system that targets ‘driving while Black’
EASTHAM — Before the pandemic, I often led classes for the Registry of Motor Vehicles. The students had been cited for speeding and other infractions. The curriculum was supposed to […]
TEACAKE'S TAKE
The End
VIGNETTE
Circled Wagons
OP-ED
The Bookworm’s Manifesto
Repairing the world by reading and writing about books
Should I be so lucky as to reach old age, I imagine I will be asked what I did during the pandemic year, when a virus set fire to the […]
SKETCHBOOK
Winter Walk #3
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Origins of Hatred
Can we overcome differences and preserve the republic?
My last column (“The Bradford Street Wave”) came out on Jan. 7. In it, I decried the threat of violence that hung in the air and pled for reaching out […]
Uncaged
CAPITOL HAVOC
The Chickens Come Home to the Coup
Our deepest social and political crises are self-created
TRURO — By fomenting a violent uprising against democratic rule last week, President Trump did something unique in American history. He unleashed terror in his own country. Previous presidents have […]
ECHOES OF DR. KING
Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe
A call to action on Black women’s health
Living in Provincetown is a unique experience. It seems as if we are at the end of the world, tucked away on a beautiful spit of land, surrounded by glorious […]
