What is this?

Incurably Human is a newsletter about the ups, downs, and in-betweens of being human. Writing about my own fumbling attempts to lean into life—into the joy, heartache, challenge, uncertainty, and connection—keeps me accountable and nourishes my growth. My hope is to nourish you in the process! More recently, Incurably Human has also become the home for my first novel, All Is Well, which I’m releasing a bit at a time to paid subscribers. I release new “episodes” from my book every Sunday and Wednesday, and I send emails on the ups and downs of being human to all subscribers about once a month.

How did Incurably Human begin?

Incurably Human began as Corona Cafe, a weekly newsletter offering support, encouragement, and community for Covid-19 long-haulers. My own struggle with long Covid began in March 2020, and it took a couple of years for me to reach the relatively stable, mostly-recovered spot that I’m in now. I am endlessly grateful for the health I currently enjoy. For the ability to get out of bed in the morning, care for my kids, and work part-time. There is one piece of my long Covid experience that I hope never to recover from, though: the understanding that I am wholly, hopelessly, incurably human. This truth doesn’t leave me isolated and alone. It connects me to you. It connects us to everyone.

Corona Cafe became Incurably Human because the most important lessons that chronic illness taught me aren’t lessons about being sick. They are lessons about being human.

Who are you?

I am the sort of person who finds that question harder to answer now than I did five or ten or twenty years ago! I’ve learned—reluctantly, at times—that we shed many of our identities over time, sometimes by choice and sometimes against our will. I wear my labels more loosely than I used to, but here are some descriptors to help paint a picture of this moment in my life. I am a writer, a nature lover, a forest therapy guide, a life coach, and a mother of three boys. I am a yogi, and in the interludes between illness or injury, I run and rock climb (slowly, poorly, but exuberantly). I am single by choice. I am an introvert—but the bubbly and talkative kind.

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We can’t cure uncertainty, amputate our imperfection, or inoculate ourselves against loss. But we can live it—all of it—together.

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I am a forest therapy guide, writer, nature-lover, life coach, Covid-19 long-hauler, and single mama of three boys.