About Time and Tide
As a recovering perfectionist I am often caught up with the frenetic pace of the world around me. For a lot of my life (and even now) it served me well—Student Humanitarian Award, Pittsburgh 30 Under 30, leading the The Hello Neighbor Network, the “I don’t know how you do it” addiction. For a lot of my life it has also made me sick—physically, mentally, emotionally.
At 29, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer. Before my 30th birthday, I underwent 6 months of chemo in my own winter that mirrored the natural season. It was a sudden and important lesson in listening to my body and just listening in general. To be clear, it did not “happen for a reason,” but I did find meaning there. And I continue to find it everyday when I pay enough attention.
Time and Tide is a newsletter for people exhausted by the imposed pace of things, seeking magic and meaning in the cycles and seasons of life.
I love the Substack community and having this place to share one of my favorite things in the world—writing—along with other art I love (books, TV, podcasts, Aldi Finds, and more). And I love that this can be a community, an ongoing conversation, and an opening where we can slow down and learn from one another.
I’ve made my home in Pittsburgh with my husband, Patrick, our cat, Zèb, and a flock of chickens we co-parent with our neighbors. But I was born and raised just north of Boston where the time and tides would raise and lower with the moon.
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