The Wise Women Project: Celebrate, Illuminate, Create

October 02, 2010

As I was gearing up for the promotion of my contemporary romance, The Still Life of Hannah Morgan, published this month by Marion Margaret Press, I was struck by how this success could not have come about without the help and encouragement from the circle of women I am blessed to call friends.

In fact, the quality of my life and my ability to navigate through the rough patches are directly linked to these amazing women. My girlfriends have celebrated my successes, illuminated the darkness I sometimes found myself in and collaborated with me, providing sound advice and ideas that have helped me realize my dreams. Sometimes, using their lives as an example of what is possible in my own has been an even more invaluable gift.

As the major theme of my novel is having the courage to realize your dreams, I thought there was no better way to celebrate the birthing of this book than by sharing these women’s stories of discovering their creative side and sharing their wisdom born from their experiences. For some, they have turned their passion into a full time career, for others they have incorporated what they love into the daily fabric of their lives and yet others have found their creative outlet in unexpected places.

Starting in Mid-October, over an eleven-week period, I will be posting these extraordinary women's stories in a collection of essays I’ve called The Wise Women Project. The purpose of the project is to celebrate these women’s achievements, to illuminate the process of infusing passion into everyday life, and to create a varied blueprint of what the journey to an authentic life looks like.

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