Have you ever wondered how you arrived at your current stop along your journey? Have you ever asked the question, “What am I supposed to be learning from this experience? Each of us has places where we learn life’s lessons. The porch is a wonderful metaphor for making sense of the inner journey of self-discovery. Within the pages of this book, I share the lessons from my porch so that you can apply them to your personal and organizational life.

I'm very grateful that my two books, Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories (2003) and Lessons from the Crossroads: Finding My Authentic Path (2007), have been very well received. I am also blessed by having many opportunities to tell my story to audiences of all sizes throughout the United States. Each person who has read one or both books, and been kind enough to share his or her thoughts with me, has affirmed a thought I had a few years ago: The story of any one of us is, in part, the story of all of us. You deserve to receive my books into your life. If you feel you deserve to receive them, I am sure you too will find a part of your own journey in mine.