Behind the Song – Lucky Man

I signed up for SongwritingWith:Soldiers because I’m a good writer – of stories. But I didn’t think I could write a song. The email a friend sent said, “come to the Nashville retreat,” but I am not a songwriter? I almost didn’t go, until...

Behind the Song – El Camino

Years after Don Navor retired from his 21-year military career, he and his wife, Kathleen, decided to walk El Camino — the 500-mile pilgrimage draws those hungry for clarity, or a sense of meditative purposefulness, particularly as you write down your ‘porque’...

Breathe in and Exhale

All life happens between an inhale and an exhale… Admittedly, I did not come up with that quote. I found it printed on the inside of a chocolate wrapper at a SW:S retreat. I saved the wrapper, thinking I’d add it to my journal, but months later, I found it at the...