by Hélène | May 25, 2020 | Musings
Happy Memorial Day! What a strange time we live in. How do we honor holidays and commemorate special occasions in the time of Covid? Our family is celebrating its own momentous rite of passage. Our twin daughters, 22, are graduating college, one in May and one in...
by Hélène | May 19, 2020 | Next Act for Women
The death of Elise’s daughter, Giana Natali, from a heroin overdose was the catalyst for Elise to shift careers and put her passion for writing into action. She published a memoir about her daughter and her first novel has just been released as well. Tell us a...
by Hélène | May 18, 2020 | Musings
Today we lost our sweet cockapoo, Rocky. He’d been with us for close to 16 years and had serious health issues for the last two. As my sister Kat told me, your pup will let you know when it’s time, and he did. He stopped eating, his breathing became...
by Hélène | May 13, 2020 | Next Act for Women
After thirty years tap-dancing through life as a childfree woman, Dani fell in love with a divorced dad of two and stepped into the amorphous role of a parent’s live-in significant other—or, babysitter without compensation. She writes about her journey in her memoir,...
by Hélène | May 11, 2020 | Musings
How are you holding up? I’ve been thinking about the extraordinary times we’re living in. This health crisis is affecting every human on the planet in some way; still, we are each experiencing Covid-19 very differently. Some of us are sheltering alone...
