by Laura M. LaVoie | Aug 3, 2026 | Creative Writing
On August 1st, I change the sign on my front door. It is a small ritual, but it marks something real. The liminal heat of July is behind me. The promise of autumn is ahead. Lughnasadh has arrived, and with it the first harvest of the year, the moment when everything...
by Laura M. LaVoie | Jul 1, 2026 | Creative Writing
The feeling I get at the beginning of July is not something I can name easily. The solstice has passed, and the next turn of the wheel, often called Lamas, at the start of August, is still weeks away. July exists in the space between two peaks, neither the height of...
by Laura M. LaVoie | Jun 1, 2026 | Branding
There is a moment in June, usually somewhere around the solstice, when I wonder how it’s already here. Winter felt so recent. The silence, the cold, the particular kind of stillness that January brings. And now the days are long and warm and full, and somehow half a...
by Laura M. LaVoie | May 1, 2026 | Storytelling
There is something different about May. Not the careful, cautious energy of early spring, when everything is still testing the air. Not the steady, intentional tending of April. May has a different quality altogether. It is joyful. Expansive. It carries the feeling of...
by Laura M. LaVoie | Apr 1, 2026 | Storytelling
April has a particular kind of energy. It’s not the tentative, hold-your-breath quality of early March, when spring is still negotiating with winter. By April, something has shifted. The light is back. The ground is soft. And there’s a pull to move forward, to do...
