by Laurie Wagner | May 26, 2026 | Blog
Five True Things. Since September I’ve been doing a writing practice I call Five Things. It’s simply five paragraphs where I try to describe something that is still with me, still rattling around my head. I try to create a scene, a vignette. I try to stay away from...
by Laurie Wagner | Apr 13, 2026 | Blog
Everything is Just Happening. Everything is just happening Paul died in his sleep last week – that’s what Cynthia texted. He would have wanted that, but of course no one – not his kids – his former wife, Cynthia or me and the people who loved...
by Laurie Wagner | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog
Because of palm trees that drop palm fronds which could fall on people, and which cost you $2000 to clean up, and because of the shared fence that leans between my neighbor’s yard to mine, and because of rats and raccoons that travel back and forth between my house...
by Laurie Wagner | Nov 26, 2025 | Blog
For the last two and a half weeks I’ve been co-leading a writing/meditation retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal. Two days into our trip, and 7,600 miles away, my friend and my assistant, Bree Smith was having what I can only imagine was a very dark day. That morning she’d...
by Laurie Wagner | Nov 10, 2025 | Blog
Photo credit: Mark Wagner There I was weeping, 10 minutes before my early morning Wild Writing Family call where 75 writers were waiting for me. Weeping because the electricity and the lights in the house had just gone off, weeping because the house was pitch...
