Rhonda Chavez was the seventh of nine siblings raised in Weymouth – one of those grayish towns couched in the Massachusetts bay, where no one seems to have any idea where to go next. When Rhonda’s older sister announced she was joining the military, it was as if the...

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 a last minute phone call...

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’ at the...

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...