Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Belmont University and the author of Afoot and Lighthearted: A Journal for Mindful Walking. She specializes in the flourishing field of writing studies, where she gives writers opportunities for freedom, authenticity, and discovery by emphasizing process and experimentation over product. Bonnie seeks to help others cultivate creativity, well-being, and peace by prompting them to engage thoughtfully and contemplatively with themselves, the natural world, and the technologies that shape our lives.