I had just returned from a visit with my sister, who has lived at the Seashore Point Wellness Center in Provincetown since 2018, when I saw the Independent’s July 25 […]
Inner Voices
VIGNETTE
Big Doings
STEAMERS
P’Town Gold
RULES FOR LIVING
Be Kind, Say Thank You, and Hold the Door, Please
An antidote for road rage and rudeness, which seem worse than ever
When I moved here as a kid a million years ago — OK, not a million, but it was a different century — it was a very different Cape Cod. […]
VIGNETTE
Love at First Sign
STEAMERS
Impression Speed Boat
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
The Recyclable Life Force: An Unformed Idea
What is it like to be a slug or a vulture?
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 […]
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 […]
