When are you making space to write this week? If co-writing in The Language Portal isn’t already on your calendar, I’d love for you to choose a time and join me. Portal Pals (that's everyone): Tuesday, August 11 at 6:00 PM PT Wednesday, August 12 at 9:00 AM PT Sacred Writing Sessions (that's VIP ... join if you want to triple your writing time and group coaching): Wednesday, August 12 at 11:00 AM PT Thursday, August 13 at 9:00 AM PT What would become possible if your writing time were already on the calendar? Hit reply and tell me which session I’ll see you at.

The smoke is as heavy as our hearts here in the Okanagan. I've been quiet these past few days as friends, family of friends, and 20,000 people have been evacuated on the west side of Okanagan Lake. There is a provincial state of emergency in BC. Please take a moment to pray with me for all the people, homes, and animals affected by the wildfires in BC and in the Okanagan, and just south of us in Washington and Oregon. I pray no more homes and properties are lost ... 230 in the Quilpituk Creek Wildfire (west side of Vernon), and they are not yet able to access the loss in Summerland due to the Bald Range wildfire. I pray stillness in the air remains and rain falls gently. My family is safe and while life is uncertain and our hearts are sad, life does goes on even amidst the chaos. I was able to spend time with my son and granddaughter yesterday, go shopping and attend a baby shower for one of my best friend's daughter. And since I was in West Kelowna, I visited another best friend. (West Kelowna is directly across the lake from me, and the fire storms are raging out of control North and South of the their community). The lay of the land is hard to wrap your head around. Before I moved to Kelowna and worked in the Toronto office, I was so confused by all the colleges in the Okanagan. They were all named Okanagan College ... Kelowna Campus, Vernon Campus, Penticton Campus, and Salmon Arm Campus. The Okanagan Valley is a region in South Central BC where Okanagan Lake is surrounded by mountains. It is a four hour drive from Kelowna to Vancouver with two high mountain passes between us. Thank you for your prayers and thoughts. Praying your Sunday is peaceful. Some of our smoke is from the wildfires in Washington and Oregon. Where are you in the world? Are you safe? Let us bring you into our awareness and prayers.

July 7-July 16, 2026 (as per calendar) ✍️ Co-writing Sessions (30 minutes) ✍️ Tuesday 6:00 PM PDT Wednesday 9:00 AM PDT Note: 🏃‍♀️ to update this session to now be on Zoom. 🗝️ VIP Sessions (60 minutes) 🗝️ Sacred Conversation: Monday 10:00 AM PDT ✍️ Sacred Writing Sessions ✍️ Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 AM PDT Wednesday 11:00 AM PDT I'll be on vacation the week of July 20th and checking in but not on Zoom. P.S. 📚 If you are in the process of writing and considering Self-Publishing, I'd love to have you in Self-Publishing Skool. It's my paid community and $11/m gets you access to the resources from my 31 years of traditional publishing and 7.5 years of self-publishing experience, along with 15 years as a Law of Attraction Life Coach. P.P.S. I just shared the AI Prompt that generated my corporate photo for LinkedIn. Head over to the Self-Publishing Skool to create your professional author photo.

We're a few minutes away from our evening co-writing session. If it's not on your calendar and you see this, jump in any time between 6 and 6:30 PM PDT. Co-write or co-work, whichever is top of mind for you. Today we are celebrating the final publication of @Lucie Haskins' book, Married Widow. Lucie was one of my first clients in the Writing Wisdom Workshop where Sacred Writing Sessions came alive. January 2019. Magic happened the first time Lucie sat down to write and I closed my eyes in meditation. The Language Portal opened. We've been in hundreds of sessions together writing, editing, and becoming devoted friends. Lucie, I am so proud of you. Yours and Dean's story has finally been birthed into the physical world. Your journey, woven through 50 years of a love so profound, transports us to understand the purest sense of what love and resilience mean. Your stories written through emails and Love Notes will help others navigate the loss and love in their lives, and see what selflessness does when confronted with a longterm Traumatic Brain Injury. Thank you for allowing me to walk this path with you. Lucie, sending you much love, sweet friend and 2x published author. To our friends, what is one story you've been carrying that hasn't found its way onto the page yet?

My boss is my 📅. Is writing on yours? A heads up, I have an appointment Tuesday evening. The co-writing session shall be moved to 7:00 PM PT. You receive two complimentary co-writing sessions each week: Tuesday evening PDT. Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT. And as a VIP, you receive four one-hour sessions. What a week we just had. What were your highlights? @Lucie Haskins and I finalized the layout for her book, Married Widow, and we uploaded it to Amazon yesterday. It'll be available on June 30 2026. And then, we had an incredible co-creation with our signature video for the Community Signature Battle. Thank you to @Ryan Clark @Vicki Dunn @Rebecca B and @Heather Rovet for contributing with your amazing testimonials and helping to create our community's anthem. A huge thanks to all our members for your presence. What would you find valuable for your writing journey over the summer? P.S. Ten communities participated in the Community Signature Battle, and co-created fun, amazingly creative videos. Have you voted? It closes on Thursday at noon PDT.