Newsletter October 2026 Volume 204 Hello there! Hope you are well. I’ve been back from my retreat for a bit now but I wanted to follow up and let you know how it went. There is so much I loved about the retreat and its physicality; like the bells gonging…
Newsletter September 2026 Volume 203 Hello there! Hope you are well. I haven’t written in a bit. Summer got so busy and I got out of the habit. I hope your summer has been good. It was a beautiful summer. Both children were home at my house, which made the…
Newsletter August 2026 Volume 202 Hello there, I hope you’re doing well. I’m just back from a walk and I am struck, yet again, by how healing a walk in nature can be. I’ve been going up into the woods near my house because it’s cooler and quieter with fewer…
Newsletter July 2026 Volume 201 Hello there, I hope you’re doing well. Mid July. It feels like the halfway point of summer; that time in summer where we still have plenty to come. Some of my teacher friends who get the summer off, say that all of August is like…
Listening to my dear friend, Laura’s, baby while she labors in the tub. Newsletter June 2026 Volume 200 Hello there, Hope you are doing well. This week I realized I don’t write or talk much about my job as a labor and delivery nurse, except with my coworkers, because there…
Newsletter June 2026 Volume 199 Hello there, Hope you are doing well. I can’t believe June is here! May was a really busy month for me. I tried to squeeze all the joy out of the beautiful blooms and birds returning but I have been working extra because the hospital…
Newsletter May 2026 Volume 198 Hello there, Hope you are well. I love when the songbirds return in the spring. I really look forward to it. Last week the Baltimore Orioles did not arrive at the time they usually return. I started to get nervous. I didn’t see their flashing…
Newsletter April 2026 Volume 197 Hello there, Hope you are well. Beltane – the Celtic holiday that marks the midway point between spring and summer is this Friday. It is a time of new beginnings. And in New England it finally feels like things are really shifting and spring has…
Newsletter April 2026 Volume 196 Hi there, hope you are well. Spring has arrived! I’ve been trying to get out as much as I can to see the plants growing because so much can happen in a few days when the weather is suddenly warm. My plum tree can go…
Newsletter April 2026 Volume 195 Hi there, hope you are well. Wow. It is such an ongoing practice and struggle to balance every day life with what is happening in the world. Trying to get through your day and take care of the people around you while also grappling with…
