Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, Tap, tap. Poke, poke. Hug, hug. How are we all doing? Best we can, I’m certain of that. For a variety of reasons, most notably playing Camp Director for over 20 Heyck family members ranging in age from 2 months to 70+ years...
Together Friends, How are we all doing? I am personally toggling between full-on preparation for Winter Cousin Camp and a tiny bit of Grinch mode, but sometimes that’s how it is in a Big-Blended-Family-That-Celebrates-Various-December-Holidays. ANYWAY, before you...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, In what will come as no surprise to anyone who’s ever caught me scribbling in a journal or hidden behind a lock-and-key diary, I was an AVID Harriet the Spy–style kid. Those pages turned into locker-side reflections in middle...
Together Friends, How are we all doing? This is your public service reminder that there are just three full weeks left between the return from Thanksgiving to the December break – and if you want to truly enjoy that time off for the holidays, now is the time to get...
Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, I was delighted to see Kate Bowler has a new book out in the spring (she is an automatic pre-order for me), and it sent me back down a path on her Substack and her three-part series of building and BEING a village. Toward the...
Together Friends, Happy Deep Fall. Or Dark-Tober? Rock-tober?! Or maybe you are Team “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” (Anne of Green Gables fans will get that one.) Maybe you are coming off a fall break or looking forward to a few days off for...