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Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy, commiserating missive composed for today. I wrote extensively about the impact of chronic toxic stress,...

Dear Everyone: I know it's been a minute, and I know what y'all were thinking: Now why don't she write? (don't know the reference? You're...

Dear Everyone: This edition of Cereal With Hand-Poured Milk (HPM) will be short and pointed. And although there exists the temptation to...

Dear Everyone: I recently participated in a lively podcast where the host and I wandered through a range of ideas around wellness,...

Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems...

Dear Everyone: Farm life carries a unique set of challenges and loves to remind The Husband and I that we, in fact, know almost nothing...

Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems...

Dear Everyone: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair. The number of times I’ve recited this fundamental truth can’t be quantified. It’s a...

Dear Everyone: A recent influx of new subscribers and site members served as a reminder that it's past time to reintroduce myself and our...

Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from deep in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. ...

Dear Everyone: Hitch a ride when you need to. Provide safe passage when you can. ~~ For the record, I am a world-class catastrophizer. I...

Dear Everyone: I chose wisely when I married. (I also got a bit lucky. But we'll stick with "wise") My husband is fierce, brilliant,...

Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy missive written and ready for this week’s edition of Cereal with Hand-Poured Milk when a dear friend and...

Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from the desk of Kelly Hurst. Kelly is a Lodestar JEDI...

Dear Everyone: What happens if we connect our reservoirs? ~~ I love metaphor. Throughout the #Tridemic, one of the most frequent requests...

Dear Everyone: I would like to formally declare June The Month of Re There are lots of Re words floating around out there right now...

Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal With Hand Poured Milk finds us on the cusp of summer. COVID cases are steadily declining,...

"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." Nancy Levin As we enter True Spring and the hope, planning, and aspiration that...

Dear Everyone: Stress isn’t a bad thing. In fact, stress - particularly when appropriate, scaffolded supports are in place - is central...

Dear Everyone: Remember how they taught you. How much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down. The legacy stops here… Melissa Etheridge ~~...