My graduating class of 22 students was the largest in all of grades K-12. And when I say class, I mean the whole grade because there was only one class. People in town talked about how big it was. I had known the majority of my classmates since I was…

The Fear of Body Transport and Care for the Dead Runs Deep I work with Vermont families regularly to assist them with the maze-work of Family Directed Funerals. …

An Inquiry About Examining Our Bloody Underpants — One Year Later The pandemic of 2020 opened a new level of cynicism and division. I’m not going to explain to you where and why and how you’ll have to do that backwork yourself. I’m jumping off at the accusation that was…

Full Spectrum Deathcare is A Community Endeavor There are a great many death doula trainings out there and more are sprouting up all the time. Without a central scope of practice it can be really confusing which to choose to spend your money on and engage in. I was trained…

The Dangers Of Mice and Hysterical Women Recently, I’ve been studying the medical atrocities inflicted upon women over the past several hundred years and examining the gross negligence of our current medical care for women. I will never write a dissertation on this, but as a woman on earth whose…

What I share here might activate some big responses — that’s okay. I’m sharing my thoughts and experiences with the intention of just that — sharing my thoughts and experiences — hopefully in a way that feels gentle enough to be unbiasedly considered. If Medical Aid in Dying, (the doctor…

So you wanna be a cat? You say you “identify” as a cat? And you’d like a litter pan in the bathroom? Don’t be ridiculous Grow up You’re not a cat The world is in crisis and you need a good education to stop it Do you think you can…

Helpers Known and Unknown, Seen and Unseen Please Hear This Call Calling all ancestors, angels, alebrijes, and gentle dragons. SOS to awkward aunties, misfit toys, crones that were called “witch,” healers whose gifts were not understood while they were living. Alert to every day teachers, librarians, midwives and babysitters, those…

Don’t Hide the Dead You see this army of dead sunflowers? It’s powerful, isn’t it? Death is powerful. It shakes us. It feels eerie. It’s supposed to — because we are alive and death is…. not alive? Well, we are not quite opposites, are we? After all, one would not…