Walking on the East End beach at low tide with my 11-year old granddaughter, I pointed out the rivulets of groundwater streaming onto the flats. All the water in the […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Shark Sightings
STEAMERS
President’s Town
SOCIAL CAPITALISM
Discontent Comes to the Outer Cape
A pessimist asks why we still hate us
In the summer of 2008, I published a quickly forgotten book titled Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium. It was not optimistic. But it came out […]
VIGNETTE
Outdoor Shower
STEAMERS
Bummer Time
JUST SAYIN’
My Ongoing Conversations With The Dead
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Truro: It’s Not Provincetown
Taking stock of the best that each town has to offer
Lately I have been trying to imagine what it’s like to live in Truro. Really, I have no idea. Although I have been next door, in Provincetown, going on 60 […]
VIGNETTE
Bug Beat
STEAMERS
The Elephant Men
VIGNETTE
Air Fryer
STEAMERS
Gobbless
CIVICS
Ten Nauset Students Try Out Practical Politics
After Girls and Boys State, bringing collaboration into the real world
EASTHAM — Ten Nauset Regional High School juniors spent the last week of school building a whole new government from the ground up. We were among a few hundred students […]
INCIDENTALLY
Flava in Ya Ear
While enjoying my cup of chocolate chip on the porch outside Wellfleet’s Gelato Joy, I watched a woman approach the counter. She scanned the list of flavors, then turned to […]
