I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had writing a column in the 27 years I’ve been a Cape Cod Times columnist. I ...

The first article of this column was published on January 8 of this year, marking exactly one year since its debut. Looking ...

In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

In the mid-90s, Ron Howard directed a gritty movie about the inner workings of a daily newspaper. “The Paper” included a memorable rant from the newspaper’s executive editor, played by the actor ...

Saturday was a very cold and windy day, so the men were unable to put the roof metal on the new pole barn. They kept busy doing other work on the barn such as building the sliding doors, putting on ...

The upcoming week marks this column’s 18th anniversary. I almost can’t believe it. It feels like far longer. It almost feels like I’ve been writing it since … “forever ago.” From church signs to chalk ...

As I was sitting around the other day, procrastinating about writing this column, it occurred to me that if I just got busy I could knock one out in an hour or so. After a few more games of solitaire, ...

Okay, I’ll be completely honest with y’all — I have no idea what I’m going to write today. Usually, when I have no idea what to write, I write about writing. And it’s not like the general concept of ...

Some have described different forms of news as neighborhoods. There's the hard news, the sports, the features and much more. These neighborhoods exist in different sizes with different properties with ...

Every Monday for more than 30 years, Mychal Wilmes starts to think about what will become his next column. “Then it kind of mulls around in my head,” Wilmes said recently over coffee at a cafe in ...