Within this sanctuary, all who quest for the sacred hallows are welcome: we hear the ancestral voices and sing the ancient stories, remembering who we are. This Sanctuary is hospitable to all people of good will, without persuasion or judgement.
I write about the present moment intimacies, tender beauty, and shocking difficulty of caregiving and how I am learning to tend myself while caring for my husband.
Once a week, I share a short illustrated essay, hand-painted and hand-lettered, from my desk to yours. Like wishing on a dandelion, I hope it’ll bring a moment of beauty and wonder to your day.
The arts, books, movies, a course: Write it!, The Writing Life, (Re)Making Love: a memoir in serial chapters (fully up now), Who by Fire: a serial novel.
Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
