A Cape Cod Notebook from WCAI

03:48 | Jan 12th

On a late afternoon earlier this month I walked out to one of the rip-rapped bluffs overlooking Wellfleet Harbor. I like this spot because it provides a particularly satisfying perspective.

04:11 | Jan 5th

I think I am starting to forget words; well, perhaps not so much forget as to have trouble retrieving them. I might be more worried about this but for the fact that my mother, her mind still otherwise...Show More

04:09 | Dec 29th, 2020

The year is ending and it is a time for solemn contemplation. But what is a year? Our calendar years are artificial, human constructs. So, too, are our weeks and months—arbitrary divisions of time tha...Show More

03:31 | Dec 22nd, 2020

Years ago, my husband, David, and his friend, Jack Braginton-Smith, then owner of Jack’s Outback in Yarmouthport, tackled what they considered a holiday heresy: displays of white Christmas lights alon...Show More

02:57 | Dec 15th, 2020

There is something about waking up in the rain, the sky ripped open, asphalt shingles doing their best impression of a tin roof. The wind has been howling such that I now only notice the moments when ...Show More

03:29 | Dec 8th, 2020

It’s this time of the year that people begin to get mice in their houses, and we have been no exception. I might not have done something about it immediately (after all, mice have the right to be warm...Show More

04:13 | Dec 1st, 2020

This is the time of year when friends and acquaintances boast about late-season swimming in the local ponds – or even occasionally the bay itself. Most of us go for a dip two or three times in Septemb...Show More

03:22 | Nov 24th, 2020

I have officially crossed the Rubicon into old age. I have a pair of reading glasses in every room. I lecture the clerk at Home Depot on how to do his job. I worry if the house is clean enough for the...Show More