The story of an ending

August’s letter to paid subscribers.

Dear friends,

I’ve shared with you before that while my husband Jose is an architect by trade, he also happens to be an excellent editor — and there isn’t a word I’ve published over the past few years that Jose hasn’t kindly heard first. 

And so it was that last weekend, before I did the lettering for my newest illustrated essay, “Gardens by the Sea,” I sat down and read the story to Jose first.

And after I’d finished, he looked over at me and said, “I haven’t heard you read a story like that in a long time. It sounded just like one of your Sleep Stories.”

Something you may not know about me is that for several years, I wrote Sleep Stories for the meditation app Calm. 

One of Calm’s co-founders first reached out to me in the spring of 2017, after reading a story of mine in an anthology of travel essays.