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

Friends, In 2020, I received an invitation that changed my life. My friend Mary Morgan asked me to help her stay at home to die. Mary had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and didn’t want to go to the hospital. Together with two other friends, I became part of Mary’s “dying team.”  Over the next sixteen months—through the pandemic—we learned about end-of-life paperwork, designed ceremonies, built Mary’s casket, and laughed and cried together about life, death, and grief. It