
Commentary
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
On the Edge
What is legal in our society is not always ethical
Sometimes the truth of a story is found between the lines, between the words, even. Not that the words are not true, but that there is a larger truth behind […]
VIGNETTE
Winter Sales
VIGNETTE
Ennui
UP A CREEK
Missed Connections
Love found, sometimes, in unexpected places
“The winter is so very cold, and dark, and when the dog leaves the bed to bark at the extended squirrel family in the attic, it leaves me colder, and […]
LOVE NOTES
Four-Legged Valentines, Plus Two Chickens
VIGNETTE
Patchwork
STEAMERS
Waste Management
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
White Christmas Dreams
Provincetown winters — and much else — are not what they used to be
In December, I kept hearing the familiar Irving Berlin tune: “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know….” Of course, what we had was […]
VIGNETTE
Extra Cheese
STEAMERS
Son of a Beach
ACTIVISM
Bayard Rustin
“I ask that if you teach your children one new name from the heroes of black history, please let it be Bayard Rustin,” wrote Henry Louis Gates Jr. in The […]
VIGNETTE
Angry Birds
STEAMERS
No Shot Novak
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
In an Outer Cape Bubble
How can it be that we are so far out of the mainstream?
I have never written a political column and do not intend to do so now. We will see if I succeed in that. Provincetown is one of the bluest dots […]