We’ve been drowning in tomatoes in New York. The CSA program at our local farm has been sending us home with heavy bags full of gorgeous, fresh tomatoes from the plants which are very happy after all the rain and sunshine this season. …

In one of Michael Cunningham’s books, A Home at the End of the World, there’s a character who arrives at the Grand Canyon and almost doesn’t get out of the car. She’s been traveling with two friends and they’ve been in an argument and on top of that she’s newly…

What follows is a piece I wrote about summertime FOMO — you know, that pressurized feeling that some of us experience around this time of year, worried that we didn’t squeeze every last drop out of the season or do all the impressive things or find a way to make…

I’ve been dealing with Lymes disease again unfortunately. Almost exactly two years after my first experience with it. …

Sinead O’Connor’s death has felt hard to shake. …

I have an offering on my website (marywelch.com) called Ask Me Anything. It’s a service I offer for free to anyone out there who is looking for feedback from a coach but isn’t necessarily able — for financial or logistical reasons — to commit to working with a coach or…

I didn’t celebrate the 4th of July this year. I didn’t host a party or go to a party or wander into town to sit on the hill and watch the fireworks launch over the river. …

I like to keep notes on topics or ideas that I think would be meaningful to share on my podcast. One of them that came up recently is something I refer to as “spiritual anemia”. It’s when the ever-compelling list of to-do’s of my human existence eclipses the quieter needs…

I recently got my new website up and running. It was a process that took months and involved moving four years of blog posts over, one post at a time — no small task! It was interesting to intimately revisit my writing. A lot of the entries are personal and…