The Return of the Peepers

After a winter of mini-malls and inter-office memos, they come out here to the dream of Nantucket. And greet it with a lusty peep.

(I wrote this essay back in 2007. A careful reader will get hit on the head with the untimely references. It remains one of my favorites, so I reprint it here. I am reprinting many of my old essays on Kindle. (If enough people want them in print, I can reprint them that way as well). This essay is the lead essay in Winter.)

I am waiting for the peepe…