So I have been writing this month. Well, after years of journaling fanatically and religiously, I would have to say that I have always written. The difference now is that in at least this modest way I am actually publishing what I am writing. A few days ago one of my mentors, Charrise McCrorey, asked me, "So how is this writing business working for you?" It seems that whenever we talk by phone during my weekly coaching sessions, there is always a point in the conversation where I am completely at a loss to know what to say. My brain just freezes and I struggle to utter even the dumbest banalities. So after what seemed like forever, I blurted out that I was surprised at the favorable responses that I had received. What I had expected to be a quiet little exercise to make my brain work differently than my ordinary patterns, had begun to feed a part of me that felt pretty good. Still, I was surprised to get these quick little messages on Facebook and Twitter indicating that at least a few of the things were connecting and resonating with people.

To any and all of you who have taken the time to respond to these blog entries, I say "thank you so much for your encouraging words." If you have suggestions for where you would like me to go with these explorations, then I would love to hear from you. My goal is to use about 100 or so of these postings to "workshop" my way through some material that has been germinating in the well-fertilized soil of my consciousness for a decade or so. If I can develop the stamina to persist in the process and thick enough skin to ignore criticism, then my intent is to craft the sum of the parts into a book manuscript over the next 12-18 months. The foundation for this work will be the material from the Performing with Poise seminars that I have conducted since the early 1990's. This material continues to morph over time, so stay tuned even if you think you have heard all of it before and we will see where it leads.