I had a great idea for a column this week. Unfortunately, this isn’t it. After about 20 minutes of deep soul-searching, it ...

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 best type of column starts with a zinger of an opening line, such as… uh… well… Hey, I’m not the one looking for how to write a column here. You’re supposed to be doing the heavy lifting. Usually, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manuel A. Yepes ’24, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot House. His column, ‘The Postgraduate Way of Life,” runs on triweekly Thursdays. When I was a junior in high ...

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, ...

One day when I was speaking to a third grade class, one little girl asked, "How long does it take to write a column?" "A lifetime," I told her. And truly, we carry a lifetime around in our brains. For ...

2025 now has only one week left. The first article of this column was published on January 8 of this year, marking exactly one year since its debut. Looking back, my time this year has been divided ...

My favorite Tough Love question from the last eight years, the one I (somewhat inexplicably) recall most fondly, was from a woman whose boyfriend was grossed out that she used a pee rag—a.k.a.