"Where do you find your people?" is a question I hear a lot. As someone who has been offering writing workshops, coaching, and consulting for many years, I find that the people who sign up come from directions I could never predict. In the last year, I've worked with a woman who was a student of mine over 20 years ago, a doctor who treated my sinus infections about ten years ago, and a woman who I joked with as we watched our kids perform in high school band concerts way-back

There's a whole lot of travel going on this summer, perhaps some even involving you and a slew of planes, trains, and automobiles. Yet for many of us, such travel is rarely about stopping out of the whirl of motion to catch up with yourself. Particularly when it comes to getting clearer about your life's work playing out in real time, many of us need a true retreat to step back, listen to what we're truly called to at this time, and discover the next best path to take. That's

I love my work but I have a tendency, to paraphrase the Oklahoma song, to be a gal who can't say no. Yet when our mouths get us into trouble, the rest of our bodies can right the wrong, and that's what happened to me. I would take on way too much work, all of it gleaming with promise when I said yes, but by the time I was driving six hours west to do a low-paying gig or staying up late doing a rushed editing project, the shine was gone, and I was exhausted. I was also sick o