Previous Newsletters

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Lammas Resurrection Newsletter August 1, 2020 My Lammas Resurrection Lilies My “Resurrection Lilies”–which first pop up in Spring, then die back, and then bloom after midsummer–always begin

Katherine in Tunisia KATHERINE NEVILLE’SLunar Society NewsletterJune 10, 2020 The Lunaticks As a former technological person myself, who’d participated in the early commercial phase of the computer revolution, I had long been fascinat

KATHERINE NEVILLE’SPaean to PAN Newsletter (Don’t Pan-ic!)May 15, 2020 The Great God Pan In Greek myth, the “Great God” Pan–whose name means “All”–was one of the most ancient gods, perhaps the

Katherine in Esalen garden, Big Sur KATHERINE NEVILLE’SCherry Blossom NewsletterMarch 20, 2020 Early Cherry Blossoms In the opening scene of my novel, The Eight, the cherry blossoms bloom early: “Some said it was a good omen

Photo: Philippe Matsas / Opale (Fr) KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Sagittarius Newsletter December 2, 2019 The Centaur of Volos Project In the early 1990s, due to my historic research into world mythology, (or perhaps due to my swashbuckling adv

Katherine at a Hallowe’en book signing KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Toussaint Newsletter November 1, 2019 Toussaint-Samhain My favorite holiday is the three-day period called Samhain in the Celtic calendar: October 31, November 1-2

Katherine in Brittany KATHERINE NEVILLE’SAssumption Day NewsletterAugust 15, 2019 Here I am in Brittany, where they celebrate today’s date with great festivities, as the ‘Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven.’ Mary: The Lad

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japonisme Newsletter June 21, 2019 Exposition Universelle Paris, 1867 Japan under the Shoguns was isolated from the world for over 250 years, from the early 1600s — and then emerged into the world at just the right