Bonjour! Have you ever felt like you were on top of the world? I have - and I was! In September 2024, I attended a writing retreat hosted by Foreword Retreats in the French Alps. For one week, I lived in a mountain chalet in Chamonix with sixteen women writers. Each day we met and workshopped with bestselling novelists, Christina Baker Kline and Paula McLain. They are generous, supportive, and talented writers - if you have not read their work, you must.

*If you ever have the privilege of going to Chamonix, head up the Aiguille du Midi. At 3,842 meters high, you will witness stunning views of the Mont Blanc massif. You might even give a warrior’s yawp. I did.