What do the young and the elderly have to teach one another? Jan shares an excerpt from his novel, ALL THAT MATTERS, featuring a young woman ready to give up and her grandmother's desperate magical race against time to help her fall in love with life.

A player falls and the world holds its collective breath. We make a wish. Jan shares the impact of one of his heroes, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, and a lesson in wishes that has changed lives, one that could lift us all.

Jan shares with us the new year's message from actor Sir Anthony Hopkins who celebrates 47 years of sobriety with a message of hope and empowerment for each of us. Tell others, won't you?

Happy 2023!

Perhaps we forget that the symbol of freedom is a woman as evidenced by the statue atop the US Capitol. Jan celebrates his mom's birthday and the example she set for wisdom and the responsibility from freedom that can empower us all..

Where do you find your own individual light? Tis the season for light-Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa, among others. Jan celebrates one such light-Linda Chester, his literary agent who passed this week, and how she saw writers as helping to illuminate the world.

What if someone appeared in your life with a secret from the past that would completely upturn your world and present you with a second chance at the thing you most wanted in life? Jan shares the first chapter of his novel in progress-The One-set at the magical mountain retreat of the Trapp Family in Stowe, Vermont. Come take a journey of colors, poetry, and risking it all for what matters most.

The poet Rilke urges us to live out our inner questions, the answers often reveal themselves down the road. Jan shares the birth of a new novel begun when he was writer in residence at the Von Trapp Family Lodge and the questions that can both upend us and lead us home.

Two years ago this month Jan recorded a podcast in the thick of the pandemic. Listening we realize we've come so far and yet, miracles like the one in South Central Los Angeles (and the question put to Deborah that began it all) are as inspiring for each of us as ever.

Sometimes it takes another to discover miracles at the most painful times of life and remind us by rekindling our inner light. Jan shares retired NBC correspondent Mark Potter's story-the journey shared with his wife during cancer-and the sunrise photographs he took that are producing healing and hope for so many.

What gives you hope? A butterfly? A new moon? A human experience of others that connects us? Jan shares symbols of hope and the remarkable story of his meeting a muslim inside a dwelling built for a Jewish holiday and the power each of us can draw from connection.