This image is one I took in the parking lot of our beloved Just Food Co-op. For me, it sums up perfectly the shift in the seasons between the grey skies of winter and the greening fields of spring. It is always a day I feel like celebrating.

This year of 2026, I am especially happy because Tim and I have just finished the full first draft of our first co-authored novel, one set in 1979 that celebrates a small community with an early food co-op at its center. We planted this literary seed fully six years ago, during the dark days of the Covid pandemic. We don’t know where it will take us from here (but, you know us: discussions for three sequels are well underway!)

Wishing you, too, a joyous and eventful turn of the seasons!

LESLIE