Commentary
VIGNETTE
Too Many Cars
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THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Our Conditioned Air
Rises in both temperature and our own hubris
As I write this, it is hot, damned hot, insufferably hot. I can take a bit of heat in the daytime, but at night it is just too much. What […]
Consensual Errors of Judgment A pictorial and diagnostic, chapter 2
VIGNETTE
Surfers X-ing
STEAMERS
Name That Thing
VIGNETTE
Summer Luncheon
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Conservation
QUEER ‘I’
My Own Private Stonewall
52 years later, the spirit of rebellion lives on
I’ve always best expressed my personal take on life through the movies I’ve watched — a quirk of memory rooted in my media-obsessed consciousness. For example, there’s a scene in […]
SKETCHBOOK
Juneteenth in Provincetown
VIGNETTE
Going Out Again
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Blessing the Fleet
A tradition that still has meaning in this town
The things we celebrate reveal a great deal about us: who we are or who we would like to be. This weekend is the Portuguese Festival and the Blessing of […]
STEAMERS
Lobsterman Roll
Juneteenth: A True Story
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Grave Thoughts
A composition on the inevitability of decomposition
The weather was strange that March day I first visited my future grave. The morning was clear and balmy, but by afternoon the sky had turned steel gray, and, as […]