If I am completely honest, I write because of what I get from the process. I do appreciate telling a good story but what drives me to the keyboard is often the unwitting messages, the deeper unseen things that I can discover nestled within a great story. There are many days when I turn my computer off, maybe crack open…

I had the same conversation three times last week. Three separate occasions with three different people, all about thirty, all disillusioned with their work, already burned out, looking for a way out. One wide-eyed young woman looked at me like I was an alien form asking \”How did you stay in your career for thirty years? I can’t even imagine…