Thoughts on writing and life for August 2024

Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it.

This is an edited excerpt from my August 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a big month for me in my literary life. August marks the twentieth birthday of my first book, THE GIFTS OF CHANGE—an event that, while it didn’t make me rich and famous, did officially make me an author. And th...