by Laurie Wagner | Jan 3, 2019 | Blog
So there we were, five old friends sitting down to a sweet New Year’s Eve night. We’d planned to do a ceremony of sorts – not your typical New Year’s ritualizing with champagne and reflections – but something that would involve a little concoction we’d brewed...
by Laurie Wagner | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Himalayan Writers Workshop, kathmandu
I’m writing this note from Boudhanath, a city inside of Kathmandu, Nepal. I don’t believe in bucket lists – good god, no – but I do hope you to get to this place sometime in your life – the sooner the better. Not that it’s going anywhere; it’s been here...
by Laurie Wagner | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog, Himalayan Writers Workshop, kathmandu
As I write this * I’m on a flight from Guangzhou, China to Kathmandu, Nepal, where I’ll be co-leading a writing workshop for 10 days with my friend James Hopkins who runs the Himalayan Writers Workshop. It’s surreal to be leaving the country now, a day before the...
by Laurie Wagner | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog
This is not the first time this year that I’ve sat down to write a blog post and not known what to say. I am speechless about the state of the world. I am flattened every time I hear Trump’s voice or watch him point his finger at some mysterious enemy on television. I...
by Laurie Wagner | Oct 8, 2018 | Blog
When I was 5-years-old, my grandfather, a photographer, decided that the shot he wanted was me, naked, standing on the diving board of his pool in Los Angeles. He took a lot of pictures of me when I was young – maybe because I was the first grandchild, the...
by Laurie Wagner | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog
This is me just after I’ve woken up, completely unassembled. It’s me before a shower or a workout, me before I know what comes next, before I get all smart and strategic, before I pluck my unruly eyebrows or go after those persnickety chin hairs. Me before...
