Newsletters

Hello and Happy New Year to everyone! From the bottom of our hearts, we wish all in our hive, as well as their loved ones and communities, a new year filled with peace, love, abundance, and delight in the little things. (Like Jazi, for instance! 🐝😉 ) By the way, have you noticed that even…

Hello to everyone in our lovely hive on this beautiful December day. Because it’s the last month of the year, we wanted to end with something especially significant. We felt the final message of the late and very great Jane Goodall was by far the best way to do this. Jazi and MamaQueenzieBee were moved…

Welcome to all in our hive, far and near, young and older, new and seasoned subscribers to our newsletter featuring Jazianzza’s memoir, Bee-Coming Strong. Thank you for joining us this month of Thanksgiving. In this season of gratitude, Jazi and I find ourselves especially grateful for you and for the sweet energy that has surrounded…

Hello to all of you wonderful two-leggeds who have joined Jazi and me on our journey with Jazi’s memoir, Bee-Coming Strong. We are deeply grateful you’re taking the time to read these monthly buzzzings from us. This is a special month because it’s Emotional Wellness Month, and we’re buzzing with excitement about it! The importance…

Greetings to all in our hive, both near and far, in this month of September. The summer seemed to fly quickly, and in a couple of weeks, it will officially be fall. How did that happen? In the backyard, I see the bees are busy flying from one flower to another, despite the heat we’ve…

Hello and happy August to our hive of Jazianzza friends. We hope that the summer is bringing you unexpected delights and a greater openness to the little things in life. Jazi was quite adamant about wanting this newsletter to focus on her cousins, the native bees. She’s happy that her memoir, Bee-Coming Strong, is bringing…

Greetings to all in our hive, wherever on this incredible planet you might be. Jazianzza and I are grateful to have you join us in this July newsletter. It seems to have been a whirlwind month, as well as a whirlwind year, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. That brings us to our…

Hello to everyone in our beautiful hive, both far and near. Jazi and I hope you’re finding moments of peace and sweetness amidst the flurry of life. Change is happening all around us, whether we want it or not, whether we notice it or not. One thing we can depend on…change is inevitable. You know,…

Greetings to everyone in this time of Spring. Jazzianza’s family is busy these days! If you can plant some native flowers to support them, that would be wonderful. They are loving the borage and lavender I have for them in the backyard. I hope they’re visiting near you, as well. Although we’ve talked about it…

Greetings to all in our hive, young and old, near and far away. Thank you for being here with us today when you could be anywhere else but here and now. Jazianzza wanted me to share the moving poem “Earthrise” by powerful wordsmith and activist Amanda Gorman. Although she wrote it back in 2018, the…

Hello, welcome to our hive, and thank you for joining us today. Jazianzza and I know that there are many things, perhaps now more than ever, that could be calling your attention. We are grateful that you are here with us. There’s so much uncertainty in the world, so many things to pull our attention…

Greetings to all in our hive, far and wide, young and older. Jazianzza and I wish you a 2025 filled with much joy, good health, abundance, and deep peace. We also want to wish you a new year filled with wonder. Why wonder, you might ask. The other day, I was sitting in the backyard,…

Hello, and greetings to all of you in our hive. The holiday season is upon us and Jazianzza and I hope that you can slow down long enough to sense the wonder of life itself. Jazi wanted me to ask you to take the time to notice not only bees flying from flower to flower…

Hello to our dear hive. We hope you are doing well and staying strong. This month’s newsletter is a bit different, given the outcome of the elections. No matter who you voted for, I think we can all agree that this has been an exhausting and dark part of our history. Jazi thought it would…

Greetings to all in our hive, young and old, close by and far away. It’s been a time of many climate change crises, wars, and the beginning of the holiday season. I have found through my practice of yoga that only in seeking to be balanced am I able to give of myself and not…

Hello again to all of you in our hive. We are sending this email out to everyone so that those of you who want can have a better set of coloring pages to work with. I’m not great with technology, and Jazianzza is even worse than I! That being said, I didn’t send the proper…

Greetings to our hive, wherever you happen to be flying about. Welcome to another Jottings from Jazianzza, our ongoing journey to spread the word about Bee-Coming Strong, Jazi’s memoir. We hope you have been able to stay comfortable with the heat and other weather challenges. Jazi has wanted me to write about the concept of…

Greetings to everyone and welcome to Jazianzza’s July journey (we couldn’t help ourselves with the alliteration!). There are a few special things that Jazi and I want to share with you, and we’re glad you are joining us.First, Jazi‘s cousins the bumblebees have finally started to arrive and it’s a joy to see them with their…

Greetings to everyone in our beautiful hive. Thank you for being a part of our journey. Our deepest desire is to have Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee’s Bee-Coming Strong book, which I’ve begun calling her “memoir”, fly around the world helping children build self-confidence, navigate bullies, and foster inner peace. We’ve had many children and the adults…

Greetings to everyone and thank you for being a part of this wonderful hive celebrating Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee’s book, Bee-Coming Strong. I was honored to be her translator and now have the joy of letting the world know about it. Jazi suggested I focus on breath for this newsletter as it was one of the most important things…

Jazi and I are thrilled to tell you that Bee-Coming Strong just received the prestigious Literary Titan Gold Book Award. Literary Titan describes itself as “an organization of professional editors, writers, and professors passionate about the written word.” They wrote a beautiful, insightful 5-star review of the book a few months ago and put it into consideration…

Greetings to everyone from Jazianzza and me, and welcome to our journey with the newly published Bee-Coming Strong. One of the enduring gifts of my childhood came from my grandfather’s love of reading. In his library I found a biography of George Washington Carver written for children that left a deep imprint on my life. Carver’s…

Jazianzza wanted me to tell you something that she feels a bit awkward about. National Honey Month in Sept. was started in 1989 to promote both beekeeping as well as honey. The thing that Jazi wants to share is that it isn’t the honeybees that are endangered because of pesticides, loss of habitat, and the…

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Honeyazza! Greetings and Happy New Year from Jazianzza and Anandamayi! We hope that you had a beautiful holiday season, filled with much joy and sweetness, and are getting off to a good start in this new year. Our book Bee-Coming Strong launched in November. Thank you for all the beautiful support you provided during this exciting time. The book…

Greetings to everyone in our hive. We wish you a holiday season filled with sweetness and blessings. Whether it be Hanukkah, Pancha Ganapati, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, or???? We are grateful to have you with us. Thank you for your warm reception of Bee-Coming Strong. Jazianzza is thrilled to tell you she is flying around the world. Two…

Greetings to everyone in our hive, and thank you for being so wonderful and supportive as we have made this journey together. Jazianzza sent me a bee-mail to let me know she is on her way and is excited to finally be testing her wings. And, thankfully, the Amazon price is now what I had originally intended…

Greetings to everyone from Jazianzza and me, and welcome to another Jottings From Jazianzza. Thank you for joining us on our journey toward the publication of what is basically Jazi’s memoir, Bee-Coming Strong. This month we want to explore a vital skill millions of us struggle with: the ability to focus. In the last chapter of Bee-Coming Strong Jazianzza…

Greetings to everyone from Jazianzza and me in this month of September, which, as a friend recently pointed out to me, is National Honey Month. Jazi and I had an entirely different newsletter in mind until we found this out. She reread her copy of The Daily Bee and found the notice about it on the back page. She…

Greetings to all of you and thank you for joining Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and me on our journey towards the publication of Bee-Coming Strong, the illustrated children’s book we wrote. Technically, Jazianzza, our little heroine honeybee wrote the book, and I just translated it for her. Pretty nice of her to let us in on how MamaQueenzieBee…

What about sleepy and playful as a bee? With all the festivities around the 4th of July, I think a lot of us are a little tired. This will be a short, sweet, and hopefully eye-opening newsletter as you join Jazianzza and me on our journey toward the publication of Bee-Coming Strong We know that bees are busy,…

While in judo class in ninth grade, my practice partner somehow did the wrong move and kicked my knee out from under me. That eventually led to three knee operations throughout my high school career. Two weeks away from heading off for the California high school badminton championship, I instead found myself needing knee surgery!…

Life has been buzzing along so quickly that Jazianzza and I completely forgot to share the exciting news that today is World Bee Day. Jazi is grateful that in 2017 the United Nations designated this day to bring awareness of the incredible importance of her brothers and sisters, as well as other pollinators worldwide. Why…

Greetings to you and thank you for joining Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and me on our journey toward publication. I want to share with you a bit of my personal journey in coming to write the book. Amid a challenging childhood, I was able to take refuge in a backyard teeming with birds, lizards, ants, frogs,…

Greetings to you from both Jazianzza and Anandamayi! Thank you for joining us on our journey toward the publication of Jazi’s story, Bee-Coming Strong. There are so many things going on in the world and Jazi wants to buzz about a lot of them, but we agreed to limit it to one subject…. kindness. I don’t want to…

Greetings to you from both Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and myself!  In the upcoming book Bee-Coming Strong, our heroine Jazianzza sometimes feels upset that she is so small and different from her sisters. Her good friend Tree surprises her by explaining that he was once a tiny acorn not much bigger than she is. Now he’s a mighty…

Greetings to you from both Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and myself!  We hope this finds you well and thriving. This month Jazi wants me to tell you about some of the guidance MamaQueenzieBee, the Queen of her hive, has given her that makes her a happier bee. MamaQB, as Jazi calls her, is a loving and…

Greetings to everyone from Jazianzza Azzaza Buzzabee and Anandamayi! Thank you for joining us in this journey towards the upcoming publication of Bee-Coming Strong. We are entering a brand-new year, fresh with hopes, possibilities, and new beginnings. We can join with the energy of millions of people around the world making New Year’s resolutions. It’s a…

Since the holidays are upon us, Jazianzza, the star of the upcoming children’s book Bee-coming Strong, thought you might well be using some of her family’s honey for baking or cooking, so she suggested we write about honey. To begin with, how much honey do scientists think a bee makes in her lifetime? Some say 1/12…

Thank you for signing up for Jazianzza’s newsletter. She is the star of the upcoming book Bee-coming Strong. In this first newsletter, Jazi wants to tell you about one of the wonderful things her sisters and brothers did in the Canary Islands. She was so amazed by their ingenuity in this crisis she wants you…