I've started pre-heating our dinner plates. Windows are closed.  A shower of leaves and twigs rained down in front of the windows last weekend, which means the gutters are clean (for now); I made a huge pot of bean and veggie soup, ladling it...

What childhood messages do you think still echo in your mind?

"Life is not all fun and games."

"You're so funny." 

"Do unto others..."

"You're a born teacher."

"Children should be..."

"You're good at..."

"You were a mistake from day...

You're Not Writing. You Even Make Time to Write. You're Not Writing. But you want to write. You feel the call to share stories, experiences, your gifts, or to record history as it unfolds. But, crickets! TRY. ONE. MORE. THING. Please? It is...

Do you feel it? The great urgency for our best and brightest to get their best and brightest into the world to be a resource for future generations? I started thinking, "What if we ARE the Resource?"

Do you ever stop to think about how your gifts...

DEEPEN THE POWER: People are often discouraged- and sometimes forced- to dismiss and ignore their gut instinct and lean into facts-based logic and reasoning. In the process, they disregard one of the most powerful resources we as humans...

What do recipes have to do with writing? Sense-memories; Nostalgia, Connection with others, Retreat plans, Gratitudes; body pleasures, all nourishing gifts for writers’ and readers' minds!

Some of the best things about Winter begin with warm...

Listen. At any given time, there is a woman out there with as much life behind as ahead of her now. She has Wisdom to share,  and stories to tell. She may be looking at retirement; she may need to leave a soul-depleting job, she could be...

"The Feels" can become barriers and self-sabotage; food for The Resistance Monster hiding next to the manuscript in your closet! Perhaps you’re like me, looking at retirement (finally) and an empty nest as a pathway to (finally) writing that...