Everyone is living
their own story.
Come explore yours.
For the last several months, I have been busy supporting family and friends through their health journeys while also expanding my knowledge through a combination of lived experience, trainings. and connecting with other end of life professionals. I look forward to posting additional offerings in the coming months.
Community Events
Past Events
The Mountain Times:
“The play itself centers on three older Vermont men—“old dogs”—who gather each morning on a porch, as they have for years. One day, a piece of difficult news changes everything, setting off a chain of events that brings family dynamics, generational tension, and deeply human questions to the forefront.”
What a treat for all of us who attended this community theater production! I am grateful to Theater in the Woods for inviting me to facilitate the post show conversations on May 10 and May 17th. Thank you to all those who were able to participate in these community conversations about the creative process as well as themes such as life in a small town, friendship, family, and navigating an end of life journey.
Come See Me in the Good Light, directed by Ryan White, is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about queer poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit, and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.
Thank you to all who helped kick off National Poetry Month 2026 by attending the April 3rd screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Come See Me in the Good Light!
Hosted by Poet Bianca Zanella, the event included the creation of a community grief poem and a post-show conversation with panelists Poet Jess Bouchard, Artist-Healer Kelli Prescott, and Death Doula Jackie Proulx about grief's essential role to living and how poetry and art help us to move forward.
For those of you who missed the event, you can watch the movie trailer below.
Art Workshops
Exploring Our Changing World through Collage
Rutland Free Library Teen Programming
It seems like things are always changing whether we like it or not. Big or small, these changes can affect our lives at a personal, national, and global level. Our feelings about change can range from fear to excitement, sadness to joy, anger to acceptance. Sometimes those emotions are happening all at once which makes it even harder to express how we feel.
In this workshop, we will express our hopes, fears, and intentions about changes in our lives through collage. Participants will be invited to work on individual pieces as well as a community piece of art.
DATE TBD
Rutland Free Library
Small Meeting Room (second floor, elevator available)
10 Court St, Rutland, VT 05701
Book Discussions
Rutland Free Library Adult Programming
In The Wild of Edge of Sorrow, Francis Weller expands our understanding of grief by exploring five different types of individual and collective grief that we experience as humans. Weller moves beyond limiting grief to our emotional response to the death of a loved one to include other types of loss such as significant changes in our lives, the parts of ourselves that we have lost to trauma, unfulfilled dreams, changes in the world as we have known it, and inherited ancestral grief. Weller challenges us to explore our sorrows, recognize that they are shared, and understand how they can help us to transform our lives.
Discussion will focus on the book in sections. There will be opportunities for participants to break off into smaller groups to explore different themes and questions. Poetry and other art forms will be woven into the discussions to illustrate concepts.
SIX WEEK SERIES OF COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS
DATES TBD
Rutland Free Library
Fox Room (2nd floor, elevator access)
10 Court St, Rutland, VT 05701
Grief Workshop
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.