Book Club

Tuesday, September 29 at 10:00 am.

The book we are reading is With Love, Nicole by Nicole Schmidt.

With Love, Nicole is a deeply intimate memoir told through letters written during love, caregiving, loss, and the long road of grief that follows.

When Nicole’s husband, Mitch, is diagnosed with cancer, she begins writing him letters—first as a way to survive the fear, and later as a way to endure the unimaginable. These letters become a lifeline, capturing the quiet moments, the unbearable ones, and the love that refuses to disappear even after death.

This is not a book about how to grieve “correctly.” It is a story that gives permission to grieve honestly. It explores anticipatory grief, caregiving, widowhood, identity loss, and the slow reawakening to life after profound loss.

Written with warmth, vulnerability, and raw truth, With Love, Nicole is for anyone who has loved deeply, lost painfully, or wondered how both can exist at the same time.

Some stories stay with you long after the final page.
This is one of them.

Tuesday, October 6 at 10:00 am.

The book we are reading is Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.

In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab work “with both the heart and the hands.” She introduces us to Bill, her brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in observing and protecting our environment.

Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.