by jlouden | Sep 30, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
For the last two years, I have been trying to make sense of how, after a very hard period in my life, I got so deeply mired in regret and sadness that even falling in love with a man who makes my whole being light up just by walking around a corner wasn’t enough to...
by jlouden | Sep 23, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Once a year, I convene a course I co-created a number of years ago with Michele Lisenbury called TeachNow. What the course is really about is developing your craft as a teacher, about what happens when you ask yourself, “I want to be a better teacher; how do I...
by jlouden | Sep 9, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
This past weekend I went wild. I’ll admit, wild for me may appear tame to some, but hey, half a loaf of bread was consumed! Three bars of chocolate! Nine episodes of various Netflix TV episodes. Two naps! 200 pages of a stupid novel (I wish it hadn’t been stupid). Let...
by jlouden | Aug 27, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Here is a video I recorded earlier this year. I thought it was particularly poignant to share with you now because I am in the midst of a giant transition, writing this from a friend’s ranch in Montana before we finish our epic drive to our new house in...
by jlouden | Aug 19, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I write this from my almost empty studio attached to my almost empty house, a house I have lived in for 14 years, longer than any other. The air is scented with cardboard and our voices echo if we yell to each other. I packed stupidly and have dresses to wear and a...
by jlouden | Aug 12, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
On Facebook a few months ago, a friend bemoaned that no one was talking about another tragic murder of a black man by a police officer. “Where is everybody?” she asked. My face grew hot reading her comment. I wanted to post something immediately. I wanted to have an...
