Welcome, friends!

Thanks for joining me at Embracing the Full Catastrophe. You can sign up to receive this Substack newsletter at the bottom of the page, on the home page, or on the contact page. I’ll come to you monthly with mini-essays, excerpts from my forthcoming memoir, thoughts on writing and life and loss and family, and random things I find particularly thought-provoking or inspirational.

I’ll also include occasional news from the familial hypercholesterolemia front and our latest travels and probably other completely unrelated topics, because we are, after all, people with passions rarely confined to a single theme.

For me, the through line is empathy and compassion and connection. If that speak to you, join me in this ongoing conversation about the things that make our lives worthwhile. Perhaps we’ll both learn something we wouldn’t have known flying solo.