A career writer, editor and columnist, Peg Stomierowski Gould moved west from upstate New York to Colorado and Alaska. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism, cum laude, and an MBA degree in leadership/human resources management, marketing and services management; she also has held an insurance license and did training in the financial planning field. She writes about people and what they believe, small business and career development, leadership, health care, human services and mental health, nature and nurture. She has studied and worked in end-of-life care and is interested in art, literature, and psychology.