To my mind, displays of humor during a crisis evince a certain resilience and creativity. I found the idea of the “quarantini” — a martini variation to drink under quarantine […]
Visual Stories
KITCHEN TABLE
Big Easy Oysters
Wellfleet oysters make a New Orleans favorite even better
My friend Sophie’s mother, Lillian, was famous for her deceptively slow-paced, Southern-accented way of talking, and for her oyster patties. I never understood why these beautiful appetizers were called “patties.” […]
CREATIVE ISOLATION
The Scribble Game Is Not Just for Kids
Let imaginations lead the way, then listen
WELLFLEET — Lisa Palladino is an artist and an expressive art therapist who lives in Wellfleet with her husband and two children. Ten-year-old Sterling is in fourth grade and Poppy, […]
Isolation
The Pilgrim Monument shelters in place.
DISPATCHES
Postcards From the Pandemic
Personal reports from around the world to the Outer Cape
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have truly become, despite all the fear and barriers, a global family. Near or far, we are facing the same risks and many of the […]
Sketchbook
Sketchbook by Mark Adams
LOST AND FOUND
Bringing Home a ‘Box Eternal’
A trunk from Kentucky becomes a table on Cape Cod
I am going to miss the chaos of a good estate sale during this time of distancing. My strategy at such gatherings is to stand in one place, ignoring the […]
GALLERY
The Comforts of Home
‘I simply remember my favorite things’
Now is the time to find ways to take comfort in being at home. Here we can surround ourselves with what’s most familiar. And look at these things anew: a […]
CAREGIVING
Past Practices of Cookery and Hygiene
Finding comfort in ‘simple remedies’ and suffrage sarcasm
I turned to old cookbooks for comfort last week, wondering what my American foremothers had done in times of crisis and scarcity. Given that our best strategy at slowing the […]
RARA AVIS
This Week’s Bird Sightings
Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 24, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet […]
CREATIVE ISOLATION
Bridging Generations With a Memory Book
Questions, answers, and art tell a family story
Making a memory book is something like writing a memoir, but much more free-form. To make one, you gather stories and images that don’t have to fit together to recreate […]
BODY/MIND
A Time to Voo
A breathing exercise that brings calm
Amid news reports of climbing infection rates, hospital bed shortages, and people ignoring guidelines during this unprecedented time, I can feel myself contracting. Lack of control has never been my […]
GAME OFF
What to Play, Watch, Listen To, and Bet On
Sports fans, scratch that itch
Sports fans across the country are itching to watch, play, place bets, and argue. Just when it seems the world of sports has gone totally dark, along come some good […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
Venus, if You Will
Finding optimism in the night sky
I have never met a pessimistic astronomer.” A New York Times reader recently posted this comment, inspired by another reader’s delighted account of looking through a telescope. I haven’t either. […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
A Time to Revisit Interpersonal Connections
Are you willing to embrace change?
Time to rewrite the social contract for modern times. The Sun in Aries in the 7th House of Relationship places scrutiny upon our interpersonal connections. Meanwhile, a massive conjunction […]
