Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Is there a special name for the period between Spring Break and End-of-School-Year? If not, THERE SHOULD BE. Let’s make one together! Springapalooza? Springtastic? The Home Stretch? Ana tried to call it the Spring Scrunch! Oh,...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, As someone who dabbles in open-water distance swimming (yes, I survived my 2-mile ocean swim in Clearwater, FL last month, thank you for asking, but it was NOT PRETTY and it took me over two hours given the strength of the...
Together Friends, Public Service Announcement / Shameless Self-Promotion: As this 30K-plus mailing list knows, we produce two high-quality (and dare I say fun?!) newsletters for our community each month, as well as spontaneous Together Community Pop-ups – all at no...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I descend from a long line of artists. A far back relative was a poet of distinction in Germany, all of my Heyck aunts are painters and musicians (in fact, check out my godmother’s feature in the Times), my sister – The...
Together Friends, Welcome to February! Welcome to Almost-Spring. In an extra-heavy world, I’m here to keep shining a light on people who have chosen to work toward the greater good – and peek at just HOW they do it and what they have learned along the way. Together...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Living in the DC area is a bit. . . chaotic (or gut-wrenching? heart-breaking?) right now. A plane tragically fell out of the sky just a few miles from my home, I have researcher friends whose cancer studies at the NIH are...