Apothecary is my weekly newsletter, and the basis for my forthcoming book of the same name.

After forty years of asking other people questions, I've turned the notebook on myself. I live out loud here — friendship, dating, grief, reinvention, and the occasional existential wobble.

Essays and small remedies for the second half of life.

The Joy Experiment, my first series, follows the year I set out to investigate manifestation and accidentally reinvented my life. On Fridays there's Flowers for the Weekend — three small remedies to carry into Saturday.

And sometimes I just need to bleed on the page. That's where essays like In and Out of Africa come from.

Mind the bell over the door, and the tabby winding her way through your legs. You've wandered into a small shop lined with pink glass bottles and handwritten labels. There is a faint smell of bergamot. Behind the counter is a woman who spent forty years as a journalist asking other people what made them tick, what ailed them, and what they longed for. Now, for the first time, she's asking herself.