2011 New Blog Post Announcement

Greetings!

Thank you to all who have signed up for THE YEARNING FACTOR, November's one-day fiction writing workshop at Mount Vernon Country Club near Denver, and the 2012 WEAVING WORDS AND WOMEN April trip to Peru.  There are two spaces left for each event, so it's not too late to register.  Details below.  Thank you!

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 Life is an Adventure! Write it! Live it! Love it!

 
  

 THE YEARNING FACTOR

MVCC Seminar CaskeyThis one-day workshop, inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler's book From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction, will take us into the "white-hot center" of writing. "  

 
We will be using From Where You Dream for morning instruction, and excerpts from our own work for afternoon writing.  For men and women.
 
 WHERE: Mount Vernon Country Club, Golden, Colorado. From Where You Dream Robert Olen ButlerWHEN: November 5, 2011, 8:30am - 4:00pm.  COST: $95.00, includes continental breakfast, catered lunch, and optional hike on private trails. 
  
Butler won a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. 

 

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION  Deadline is Tuesday!
 
JUMP into the heart of your characters' deepest yearnings!

 

NEW DATES FOR 2012! 

Weaving Words & Women

a Peruvian Adventure

 hosted by Laura Tyson

Founder of The Women's Wilderness Institute

 and Page Lambert

Connecting People with Nature, Connecting Writers with Words

 

Paz y Luzwoman weaverMachu Picchu

 Join Page and Laura on this cultural immersion into Peru

April 20 - May 12, 2012, $3200

 

~ the ancient, the sacred, the everyday world of women ~  

 

Discover the Sacred Valley, Patacancha, Cusco, and Macchu Pichu,

One of the Seven Wonders of the World!

 

    Peru market  Peru ruins  Peru lake and pack horse

Watch the nimble fingers of the women weavers with their vibrant strands of wool. Open the pages of your journal and weave a tapestry with words.  Ride horseback in the Sacred Valley, or explore the Ollantaytambo Ruins by foot.  Marvel at the Temple of the Sun.  Take a cooking class in Peruvian cuisine. Share a meal in a Peruvian home.  Ride the VistaDome train along the spectacular Rio Urubamba River as it thunders and crashes towards Machu Picchu.     

    

Discover the ancient strands of modern life.   

 Let Peru weave her way into your heart. 

 

View Complete Itinerary

 

 See Photos of Lodging Accommodations  

Peru hostal
Our lovely courtyard hotel in Cusco where we stay for 3 nights

 

 

 

$250 deposit will hold your space. 

(2nd payment of $1350 not due until January 1st, 2012)

 

Visit Retreat Page for Complete Details

 

You do not have to be a writer to join this creative adventure!

 

A little more about Page...     

Page has been leading creative adventures for fourteen years, often working in partnership with organizations such as The Women's Wilderness Institute, the Grand Canyon Field Institute, and the Aspen Writers' Foundation.  In 2006, her "River Writing Journeys for Women" with Sheri Griffith Expeditions were hailed by Oprah's O Magazine as "One of six great all-girl getaways of the year."

Fee arms in air

  

"Page Lambert is our go-to gal for all trips literate in the American West." 

Janet Rodgers, Solo Lady Travelista

 

What Women Guests Say About These Trips

 

 
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