Archive - Christiane Pelmas

The Creativity Journals: On Writing

Squirrels are still squirrels even when the nuts are nowhere to be found...

Feb 3 •

Christiane Pelmas

April 2024

A Mother's Death Never Dies

No matter what kind of relationship we have with our mothers, their loss is still an unfathomable one. Fourteen years later I still miss her, even…

Apr 15, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

The Creativity Journals Part II: the care and feeding of your erotic nature

...and the importance for artists, writers and yes...every person in an intimate relationship...to understand the significance of this

Apr 1, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

March 2024

Belonging vs. Fitting-In

...making a critical distinction amidst the dangerous confusion that these are one and the same thing.

Mar 25, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

February 2024

Dismounting From The Well-Saddled Life

There is nothing more delicious – or heartbreaking – than being rediscovered by The World

Feb 5, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

January 2024

From The Creativity Journals: The Importance of Making A Mess

Generating something that matters, a thing we will offer out into the world in a gesture of soulful devotion, is a necessarily long, often arduous…

Jan 8, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

God Save the Queen: On The Art of Not Being Disappeared

We need to reinvent the Triple Goddess to reflect the current reality of women in their 50's and 60's – who're running the world (behind the scenes of…

Jan 4, 2024 •

Christiane Pelmas

December 2023

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

We have the power to talk ourselves into extinction...or...(with gratitude to Diane di Prima for her poem Rant, excerpted here)

Dec 30, 2023 •

Christiane Pelmas

November 2023

May you forever soar the galaxy…free from the body that gave up well before your spirit ever would.

Nov 10, 2023 •

Christiane Pelmas

We Were *Not* Made For These Times

But we must let these times make us

Nov 5, 2023 •

Christiane Pelmas

October 2023

Seasons, Cycles and Ceremony

It is the oldest of all human practices to honor change...

Oct 10, 2023 •

Christiane Pelmas

September 2023

From A Writer's Journal, Part I

Algorithms, honey bees, goldfinches & the soul of a story

Sep 26, 2023 •

Christiane Pelmas

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