Taos. The Cure for Writer's Block.

Do you like the snappy new blog design?  And the fact that I am actually writing my blog again?   I had been having my own version of a climate crisis, my creativity flopping around like a fish in a dry riverbed, floundering through a summer drought.  But then I attended Jennifer Louden’s Writers Spa in Taos last week and came back feeling energized and creatively revived.

I was with 30 women from the US and Canada. We talked, we laughed, we wrote, we found a new voice or reconnected with an old one.  Taos spun it’s magic around us for a week leaving us grateful and richer for the experience.

The workshop/spa was at the  Mabel Dodge Luhan House, which is walking distance from the Taos plaza.  Mabel was quite the colorful babe, living a raucous and unconventional life in the early 20th century, and her home is now designated a historic landmark.  Historic in this case meaning a house with small dark rooms, loud creaking floors and ceilings (you can experience both simultaneously if you’re in a first floor room like I was!), finicky plumbing and all kinds of bugs and insects.