Out of the Blue

2 weeks ago | mariandrew.substack.com | Mari Andrew

Since these are the final two creativity retreats I plan to teach (at least for a looooong time), they are particularly special and I hope you can come!!! Here are a few questions you might have:Well okay! I’m coming back to Art of Living Retreat Center in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains to teach a weekend workshop on telling YOUR story. I’ll focus on writing stories from lived experience and memory, with optional art prompts if you’d rather draw it out.

2 weeks ago | mariandrew.substack.com | Mari Andrew

Here was the planter in front of this godawful civic building in February:And here it was yesterday!The other day I saw a video of a baby goat learning to walk on his first day of life. While much more competent than a young human of pretty much any age, he was wobbly and stumbly, buckling under his tiny weight as he figured out what legs are for on damp green grass.

1 month ago | mariandrew.substack.com | Mari Andrew

Hello beautiful people!After five years of yapping about writing this book, it finally has a name and a cover and a full set of insides! If you find the cover-making process remotely interesting, here was my journey:I fully illustrated the covers of my last two books so I expected to do that here, but it’s a different kind of book for a different part of the bookstore (so proud that it will be venturing off without its buddies!).

1 month ago | mariandrew.substack.com | Mari Andrew |Jonathan Fields

Last Tuesday was First Warm Day in New York. That’s an official holiday here. You don’t know exactly when it’s going to happen because it gets to a point during a painful winter when you just give up on looking at the forecast and resign to continual wretchedness. But when it does, you feel like a completely new person, as though your soul has just bloomed a field of blue hydrangeas, puffy and plump with new promise.

1 month ago | mariandrew.substack.com | Mari Andrew

I’ll be at Omega Institute (for the first time!) teaching a brand-new workshop all about “getting in shape for a creative life.” Think of it as going to the Creativity Gym and getting a bootcamp workout! If you’re completely out of creative-shape or would like guidance creating a sustainable “personal training” plan for your work (this is just the BEGINNING of the metaphor, by the way :), you are so welcome to join us here! It will be messy, creative fun in a peaceful town at a stunning time...