by Laurie Wagner | May 12, 2025 | Blog
For a couple of years now I’ve been aware of something that I can only describe as a big bend in the road ahead for me. One of those wide, wide curves you might take in a train or a car in a vast landscape, the bend so wide that you can’t see around it, can’t see...
by Laurie Wagner | Mar 6, 2025 | Blog
Hi friends and fellow creatives, Like many of you, I’m trying to pace myself with the news and the state of the world. It’s a lot. I feel it in my body, in my family, in my friends. The collective anxiety is real. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to stay engaged...
by Laurie Wagner | Feb 3, 2025 | Blog
Wake Up, Naomi! That’s the sign poet Naomi Shihab Nye sees above her desk every morning when she sits down to write. It’s a note written by her son when he was a boy, maybe as a reminder that he needed to wake his mother up from a nap, but a note she has kept all...
by Laurie Wagner | Sep 10, 2024 | Blog
A Few Things I Don’t Want to Forget The dream where both of my parents are asleep in the same bed. The floor is littered with balled up tissues because someone has a cold, and my father’s eyes are fluttering like he’s trying to open them after 15...
by Laurie Wagner | Aug 27, 2024 | Blog
To All My Friends Who Struggle with Loving Their Bodies So there I was, staring at a little sticker on a table with the words, “I hate my body” written on it. There were lots of stickers on that table with many different things written on them...
