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What is possible when you get to the root?: The peer-run Wildflower Alliance redefines mental health care, leaves the system in the dust

What is possible when you get to the root?: The peer-run Wildflower Alliance redefines mental health care, leaves the system in the dust

by Melissa Karen Sances | Feb 28, 2025 | Featured, Uncategorized, Wellness

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate Her phone pinged and a grey bubble rose to the surface: “Are you ready to come back?” The answer was supposed to be yes. She should return and recover. All she had to do was find the right cocktail, her doctor had said,...
Can’t take that away from me: With Jan. 20 on the horizon, the Queer Joy Collaborative sings, dances and fights for its life

Can’t take that away from me: With Jan. 20 on the horizon, the Queer Joy Collaborative sings, dances and fights for its life

by Melissa Karen Sances | Jan 3, 2025 | Arts, Featured, Music, Uncategorized

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES For the Valley Advocate Glitter. Sparkle. Bedazzle. Shine. When Mara Levi and Nova Wehman-Brown started dreaming of a Winter Ball, these four words came to mind. The executive director and the board president of the Queer Joy...
Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories

Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories

by Melissa Karen Sances | Oct 24, 2024 | Featured, Uncategorized

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche I have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and...
What can you expect from a Cuddle Party? Conversations about consent happen before anything else

What can you expect from a Cuddle Party? Conversations about consent happen before anything else

by Melissa Karen Sances | Oct 11, 2024 | Featured, Uncategorized, Wellness

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES For the Advocate As the sun sets over the Hidden Temple in Florence, 14 adults in their comfiest pajamas sprawl on a generous bed of quilts. Outside on this crisp October Saturday, the foliage is just starting to turn, its pops of color...
Would you eat food off of a naked body?: Local event, Food & Form, has nothing – and everything – to do with nudity

Would you eat food off of a naked body?: Local event, Food & Form, has nothing – and everything – to do with nudity

by Melissa Karen Sances | Aug 30, 2024 | Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Uncategorized

By Melissa Karen Sances For the Valley Advocate To Coco Bustin, the body is a beautiful vessel. She first came to appreciate it in figure drawing classes at Tufts University, where she met every curve and contour with wonder. Nudity, she realized, was an artistic...
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