An inconvenient truth: Turns out the man I called Daddy wasn't my father…even as he was hiding in plain sight. That’s one of my family’s secret stories. What about yours? Share them…and experience the same powerful release I felt when sharing mine!

How I discovered that I'm more than a writer, coach and teacher; I'm a storyteller. And how Madeleine L’Engle helped get me there.

"I never thought I had stories to tell…until one workshop changed that. On fear, creativity, and finding the writer I didn't know I was."

That’s the thing about stories: However personal they might be on the surface, whenever they’re shared from the heart, they are always universal.

Although I am posting this memoir-excerpt-as-tribute on World AIDS Day, it's important to remember that AIDS/HIV is with us 365 days a year...and not only in the West and not only in the LGBTQ community . May this be the last generation to have to know AIDS.

Creativity doesn’t wait for quiet. It waits for permission. This time of year, with its long nights and reflective stillness, offers us the perfect reminder that inspiration isn’t something we must chase…it’s something we can choose. Are you ready to make the choice, for your creativity?

If you’ve been waiting all year for the right moment to propel your writing (and yourself as a writer) to your next breakthrough, I’m here to tell you that, with 2025 starting to wind down, now is that right moment!

It’s the right moment for your next breakthrough, and it’s the right moment for the inspiration, clarity and support that will get you there.

Every writer I know has faced one of these challenges: the frustration of not writing as much as you’d like…the challenge of finding time to write…the inner critic that whispers “you’re not good enough”…the fear that the well of ideas has dried up…the nagging doubt that maybe you’re not a writer after all.

I’ve been there too. That’s why I created Fall Writes.

This is the breakthrough you've been waiting for! All you need is passion, curiosity and an openness to fresh ideas and new solutions. All you need is a willingness to explore and a yearning to create. All you need is an open heart and an open mind.

The only right time to claim your creative voice is that breakthrough moment when you finally say yes to the writing life you’ve been yearning for, the one that has been calling to you so relentlessly for so long. Are you ready for that breakthrough moment? Of course you are, or you wouldn’t be reading these words.

I am more and more disturbed by the parallels I see between what I "imagined" and what plays out on the streets of this country (and in those headlines that bother to report it).

At the same time, I am awed by the power of the stories we free to tell themselves through us, and I am increasingly convinced that it's our stories, the voices that express them and the wisdom and action that derive from them that will change the world.

Imagine an oasis of unparalleled support where you’re free to be your most authentic, expressive and creative self.

Imagine all your writing questions answered, all your writing issues addressed and all your writing accomplishments celebrated.

Imagine feeling more inspired and motivated than you ever thought possible.

Imagine being part of a small community of like-spirited writers always eager to cheer you on.

What you’ve imagined already exists: my Breakthrough Coaching Groups for Writers! And the next one kicks off July 2 Zoom.