[The following edited inquiries came in within the last few months. An anonymous generic reply follows for several. We continue to update our Q & A every so often. However, as now noted on our Contact Us page, no further individual reader responses are being sent out.]

Talks?
Q. How can one learn when M.S. is giving public talks and workshops?
A. Check The Center Site. (At present no large public talks are scheduled.)

Radio?
Q. We used to hear Marsha Sinetar on a national radio show regularly. When will she be on again?

A. She is on extended sabbatical (i.e., writing ) and out of the area. When worthwhile shows contact her she still schedules interviews.

Money?
Q. We're artists of all sorts who wonder "why the money doesn't follow everyone" How do you explain all those artists who are starving?

A. No one can explain a negative. That's like asking why are so many families unhappy? As is always said, "All happy families are happy in the same way, but each unhappy family is miserable in its own way." Individual setbacks and repeated strike outs require individualized, diagnostic analysis. This is a clinical function, for the most part. In engineering and business, such analysis is routinely done, under the banner of "failure analysis." M.S. is an educator -- not a clinician.

Educators answer most things by examining the patterns or motifs of what works -- not what doesn't work. Plus, when it comes to art, proball, and other esoteric vocations, we like the comments we hear from visual artists who refuse to give in to the "it's impossible" edicts of consensus thinking. So often, visual artists must buck commercial/mass tastes to forge their own expressions. They say something like," We can't not do our art. We support our love like a responsible parent supports a child."

Interviews?
Q. Some career counselors we know shared radio talk interviews with us -- why don't you offer these for sale in Books section?

A. Radio talks are short, hard to package and generally include intellectual properties, which both the radio station and M.S. wish to preserve until a later date.

Newsletters?
Q. Marsha Sinetar used to send out a great little newsletter. What happened to that?
A. Newsletters; individual responses to readers; traveling across country to give talks every month -- all this outreach leaves little time for writing and the contemplative life, as described in Sometimes, Enough Is Enough.

New book?
Q. When can we expect a new book?
A. Our next book is scheduled for next summer release (2002). Be assured we'll post information on both The Center and Books/Audios pages of the site.

Letting-Go?
Q. In Sometimes, Enough Is Enough you write about the letting-go principle. Can you add a word about that?

A. Not much more to be said but what's written, although probably someone has written extensively on that theme. In SEIE this is termed The Law of Nonresistance and a booklet is cited on just that topic (available from Unity Church, Mo.) M.S. wrote that her own life-results seem to fall into place nicely when she releases her strident effort, when she "sits" with her goals in contemplative prayer (i.e. remaining with God in stillness.), and...

"The sooner I stop trying to squeeze a guaranteed and specific resist out of some ambition, the sooner it, or something better, comes to pass." (p.15, SEIE)