Previous Newsletters

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S New Epiphany Newsletter January 6, 2014   The Birth of Phanes Last year I wrote an epiphany newsletter for my favorite day of the year: epi-phanes, “upon the birth of Phanes,” the child who popped

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S September 11 Newsletter September 11, 2013   The Battle of Spirit & Matter This morning marks the 12th anniversary of the airplanes that changed our perception of the role we play in the world. My first th

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japonaiserie, Mon Amour Newsletter August 8, 2013 One August, decades ago, I journeyed to Japan. It was the hottest August on record, the Tokyo sidewalks were scalding, one couldn’t walk on the pavement after

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Summer Solstice Newsletter June 21, 2013   The Longest Day Today is Summer Solstice, when the sun seems to stop in the sky, stop moving north and head south for the winter. Whether the sun was Apollo, Ahura Ma

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Epiphany Newsletter January 6, 2013   Epiphany Here it is again: my favorite day of the year, the twelfth day of Christmas – in western tradition, the day that three wise men from the East who’d &#

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S “Triple-Digit Days” Newsletter Dec 12, 2012   “The end of an era: The only long newsletter I will ever write.” -KN The end of a cycle is always fascinating, but this one is especially s

  KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Octal Newsletter October 4, 2012   “Oc” in Rome: the 8th Month In the ancient Roman calendar, which began in March at the equinox, September was counted as the 7th month (“Sept”

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S April Fool Newsletter April 1, 2012   Born from the Foam This month was named for the Greek goddess Aphrodite (aphros=foam, dite=born): she who was born from a drop of sperm fallen into the sea, and who emerge