Books · Journals · Field Notes
The Bookshelf
Words I’ve walked with
Many of these I haven’t read like a novel. I often buy a book in several formats to fit how I use it: hard copies and ebooks for study and reference, audiobooks for listening while I’m in the garden or doing chores. The information settles in somewhere quieter than reading alone reaches. It threads itself into the plants I’m learning to name, the dogs I’m watching, the body I’m slowly learning to listen to. By the time an audiobook ends, the ideas have stopped being notes and started being practice.
I believe the right book, met at the right moment, can give you better language for how to move through the world. The collection below is gathered the way it actually lives in my work: the newest journal first, then the herbal and holistic titles I’ve studied the longest stretches alongside, then the books I worked through when I was learning to be a better human for the dogs.
The Newest Journal
Fresh from the writing desk — the most recent addition to the collection.
The Companion Collection
The whole shelf — the newest above, and the journals it joined. None of them disappears when a new one arrives.
Herbalism Foundations
Where every home apothecary begins — plants as medicine, food as foundation.
Foraging & Wildcrafting
Where the apothecary meets the wild — vinegars, ferments, and grains gathered from the field.
Clinical Herbalism
For the deeper practice — protocol-level work, system by system.
Metabolic & Nutrition
What’s happening underneath the surface — the conversation between food, hormones, and the long-running pressures of modern life.
Dog Behavior & Care
For the rescued, the reactive, the fearful — and the humans walking quietly beside them.
Anticipatory Grief, Daily Joys & Memory-Keeping
For the whole arc of caring for a beloved animal — the slow goodbye, the small mornings, the keeping of memory.
Pairs with the Senior Dog Companion Journal — also for the daily joys, the tracking, and the cherishing.
More titles being added as I find ones worth recommending. Companion to the upcoming Pet Loss & Grief Journal.