SUSTAINING WATERS

Local fish markets, North Shore volunteering, growing microgreens

  heartland. Now, my son and I call the North Shore home after years of living in Austin, Texas, where BBQ and tacos are currency and summers are hot as heck and heading to Barton Springs with a kolache and a Topo Chico is routine. Here, it’s seafood: fried, fresh, finished with beurre blanc, however we can get it, and picnics on granite ledges at Gerry Island with a lobster roll and a bottle of rosé. Those granite ledges make the marble of Marblehead, and the views and salt air and life on the edge between land and sea makes the most sense these days for the two of us and we revel