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I love to connect with my readers, and in my monthly newsletter, I share my thoughts, updates about events, a discussion of what I've been reading, stories from life in Connecticut, and much more. Feel free to browse my past newsletters and stop by at the beginning of each month to read my latest note to you.

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Photo by Elissa

I’m coincidentally color-coordinated with the flowers!

April 2024

4/1/2024

I love you. Happy April. Happy springtime. This is the month of regrowth, renewal, revitalization and hope.

Going outside, feeling intoxicated by the scent of the fresh air, I’m infused with a welcoming vitality. I’m feeling utterly frisky! I’m energetic and feel an extra spring in my step. Now that my knee has healed from my missed step, I’m full of beans, excited on all fronts.

Let’s decide to have the entire month of April be one of embracing the external wisdom of nature. I have an urge to cut to the chase: I want to understand the essence of all of life. While I’m still able, I want to metaphorically suck the marrow from the bone.

Nature does nothing that isn’t essential. I’ve been mysteriously drawn to a book by the famous Chinese writer Lin Yutang called The Importance of Living ...

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Photo by Elissa

I’m coincidentally color-coordinated with the flowers!

April 2024

4/1/2024

I love you. Happy April. Happy springtime. This is the month of regrowth, renewal, revitalization and hope.

Going outside, feeling intoxicated by the scent of the fresh air, I’m infused with a welcoming vitality. I’m feeling utterly frisky! I’m energetic and feel an extra spring in my ...

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Photo by Elissa

I love yellow flowers, both real and painted!

March 2024

3/1/2024

I love you! Thank you for your loving Valentine’s messages. I’m especially touched by your writing me, “I love you too, Alexandra.”

The entire month of love has been more meaningful because of my focus on the vital importance of loving, good friends. Your letters, notes, cards and ...

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Alexandra in a chair wearing a bright pink sweater, bright pink socks and bright pink shoes
Photo by Elissa

It’s great fun to wear pink from head to toe!

February 2024

2/1/2024

I love you! Happy February. This is the month of love. When I begin these letters to you each month by telling you I love you, my heart swells with gratitude. I feel our love is mutual. We know each other (in more or lesser degrees); we like each other ...

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Enjoying the fresh air and the garlands on the fence.

January 2024

1/1/2024

Happy New Year!

Elissa and I are taking a vacation to spend time with family and friends during the holiday season. I’m writing this month’s newsletter early, in the midst of the pre-Christmas happenings. In order for us to be fully present to let the spirit of Christmas ...

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Wearing all purple (even my socks!) in front of my collection of Great Teaching Courses.

December 2023

12/1/2023

I love you.

Happy 31 wondrous, festive, poignant, challenging, inspiring days of December! I can’t imagine what deep emotions lie ahead. My heart is so full of love and gratitude after experiencing such a beautiful, unforgettable, meaningful November. The more dark, brutal, bad news I absorb, the greater my ...

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Photo by Elissa

Staying cozy on a rainy day.

November 2023

11/1/2023

I love you! Happy November!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Your immediate, enthusiastic, supportive response to my new video project is thrilling. You’ve expressed such an astonishingly positive reaction, I’m more determined now to make this a reality than I was when I began.

Please know that ...

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Sitting outside at Noah’s on a beautiful day with my special drink, soda water and cranberry juice.

October 2023

10/1/2023

I love you! September is always a beautiful month in New England. This year, everything seemed especially lush and green because we had a great deal of rain. I wrote you at the beginning of September with my intentions for the month ahead. I anticipated enjoying all the simple, sensual ...

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One of the biggest hydrangea blossoms in the garden this year!

September 2023

9/1/2023

I love you! Happy September! I am fully savoring living in mindful awareness of the present moment. Deep breath. The entire expanse of August’s splendor is still alive, right now, as I put pen to paper. The greater our appreciation of the delicious ripeness of nature’s end-of-summer bounty ...

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Enjoying an iced coffee at Macondo in Stonington.

August 2023

8/1/2023

I love you!

Happy August. July was filled with so much love and joy. I’m bursting with the beauty of remembering how much enjoyment and excitement I experienced in my thoughts and actions.

In my last letter, I wrote that life is art. I’m passionate about continuing to ...

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The Castle Hill Inn is a favorite place to visit in high summer’s splendor.

July 2023

7/1/2023

I love you!

Happy July. We’re now in the heart and soul of summer’s abundance of riches. The bounties of nature’s extraordinary gifts awaken all our sensual and aesthetic appreciation. Right now—right where we are—is our time to celebrate the blessings of being at the ...

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Alexandra at her writing desk in the garden, with hydrangea in a pot on the table
Photo by Elissa

I love writing at my desk in the garden.

June 2023

6/1/2023

I love you!

Happy month of June to us all. When Elissa dropped off the May newsletter, I had a good chuckle seeing its layout and reading the copy. It was still cold at the end of April, and my unabashed enthusiasm for springtime was largely in anticipation of May ...

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Enjoying the sunshine as I write this letter to you at Sift in Mystic.

May 2023

5/1/2023

I love you!

I’m in love with springtime’s promise of rebirth. The happiest month of May is greeting us with her wide-open arms and ever-expanding wings. Spring is “busting out all over,” quite literally putting a spring in our step among nature’s extravagant colors, light and exuberant ...

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WELCOME

I love to connect with my readers, and in my monthly newsletter, I share my thoughts, updates about events, a discussion of what I've been reading, stories from life in Connecticut, and much more. Feel free to browse my past newsletters and stop by at the beginning of each month to read my latest note to you.