Newsletter

Dear friends,

As we embrace the holidays in December, I want to take a backward glance and reflect on November, on autumn, on the harvest season and Thanksgiving. It is no surprise that my 75th birthday was a significant marking for me. I’ve always been the young one in ...

Dear Friends,

Happy, happy, Thanksgiving!

The month of October provided us with an Indian summer. We were given ideal weather as grace notes, the last precious days of warm weather where we spend time enjoying summer’s magic when it turns to autumn.

Everyone seems so spirited when the weather ...

Dear Friends,

I was in a favorite local bookstore looking around – a regular indulgence that always reinforces my passions. Bank Square Books is a fun place for me to go with Cooper when we’re together having a groove. On a recent visit with good friends after dinner, we stopped ...

Dear Friends,

As many of you know, September is a most special month for me, full of every possible happy memory and my favorite month: Peter and I fell in love in September. My daughter Brooke was born in September. My daughter Alexandra was married in September. I have a ...

Dear Friends,

Happy August! I’m mindfully aware of how precious this summer is for all of us. I’m deliberately slowing the pace to savor every sensual delight possible as I stay close to home, thrilled to spend leisurely time luxuriating in the quietude. In brilliant dappling sunlight, under ...

Dear Friends,
Happy July!
Happy July 4th!

Peter’s motto, his two wise words, “still learning” seems to be the most vitally significant at this stage in my life. By continuous study and focused concentration, I am feeling the pure pleasure of discovering how many ways there are to be ...

Dear Friends,

It is always with a humble heart that I write my newsletter to you because I feel so astonishingly grateful for my good fortune. I love living in our charming seaside village on the mouth of the harbor, in our dear old cottage that has character and quirks ...

Dear Friends,

Happy May! The merry month of May is one of my most happy times of year because it is flooded with nostalgia and beautifully rich, poignant memories, and the bursting forth of spring’s abundant beauty in all forms. We feel a sense of re-birth, renewal, fresh beginnings ...

Dear Friends,

The entire month of February continued to surprise me with joy. Preparing for the Happiness Weekend Retreat at the Inn at Stonington the first weekend of February brought me enormous enjoyment as I concentrated on the month of love and the intimate connection between a love of life ...

Dear Friends,

Happy month of love in all its forms and powers. I seem to have begun this fresh new year in a continuous state of reverie. I find, and always rediscover, whenever I focus my energies on happiness and am preoccupied in an abstracted consciousness, musing on love and ...

Dear Friends,

I sincerely wish you the happiest New Year humanly possible. My soul is on fire and I’m thrilled we’re able to begin 2016 together and embrace all the good in our lives and the world.

Let me begin with great good news! The Inn at Stonington ...