“The flavour of life is bittersweet.” Adapted from Sun House, by David James Duncan It’s the week between August and September. Between summer and fall, for all intents and purposes. The last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern as this week approaches, a rising sense within me of nostalgia. It’s the recognition of passings, of endings, of change and transition. It’s liminal space, an in-between time. Liminal space can be hard to pinpoint, except in its emotional incarnations l

Just in time for my birthday yesterday, and Mary's birthday tomorrow, the first copies of The Last Caravan shipped this week. Mary and I were born 20 years and 2 days apart, and after working on this story for more than four years, the timing of its arrival seems serendipitous. A little about the cover…When Mary talked about wanting her dying process to be supported by Jules, Laurie and I—her dying team—and her desire that we share what were learning about community deathcar

Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered "The Last Caravan." If you are buying a copy as a ✨Holiday Gift,✨ please let me know if you would like a personalized gift card sent to the recipient. I thought it would be interesting to share how I arrived at the title for this book. For most of the two and a half years I was writing it, the working title was "The Community-Supported Dying of Mary Morgan." That’s exactly what the book is about, after all. But while at the beginning