July 2026

Reading The Good People: Nance Roche reminds me of Tai Bou

I’m reading ‘The Good People‘, the second novel by Hannah Kent, and already liking Nance Roche. Nance reminds me of my late great-grandmother, Tai Bou, who like Nance had ‘the gift’. Like Nance, Tai Bou was also a dispenser of herbs and tonics gathered, grounded, or steeped from her garden or from the wild places

Diary prompts from Pinterest for when you feel stuck

Found these helpful prompts, above, on Pinterest courtesy of Anna Verakso and thought to share it here in case you are going through the same thing. Feeling stuck. I don’t quite know why this came as part of my home feed, as it were, but I am grateful it did because I have been feeling

Nance Roche quote from The Good People

How hidden the heart,… How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. – Hannah Kent, The Good People (page 100)

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