Need a place to focus on your writing project? We can help! November 16-20 Clearwater Writers 2025 Fall Women's Retreat. Taking applications now!

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We have a lot to learn from a prairie. I've started a Subtack to keep track of it all.

Coming April 24, 2025

In Umbra River, CA, the closets are full of skeletons.

"A cozy novel of friendship and healing set in an inviting third space."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS

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If you've been thinking you need a break, our spring retreat is the perfect opportunity to disconnect and to focus on self care, writing, and to reawaken those winter-stiff joints and muscles. Don't just think about it, reach out and let's talk! www.paulamariecoomer.com/clearwater-w...

The best way to take care of the world is to take care of ourselves. Taking time for your writing is a great way to that. Come join us! We will feed you, provide you with a room of your own, and surround you with peace, quiet, and acceptance.

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The only antidote to just about anything is to cultivate pockets of peace for yourself and your work. Please join us! 5 spots available for our spring program, Mar. 5-9. Let the world fall off your shoulders. Reset. Restore. Emerge renewed.

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Nothing better than setting aside time for yourself and the writing life!

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Anyboody else develop an overnight passion for bookbinding this holiday season? I mean, if the world is coming to an end, you might as well create blank books for the next iteration of humanity to discover and ponder over, correct?

I found these on a gallery website and can't stop thinking about them. I used them as a writing prompt at a recent retreat I was facilitating. I never had Barbies, only knock-offs, so I find them fascinating in a thousand ways that are hard to express. (From designer Jeffrey Campbell)

This was our yoga space at our fall retreat. What a lovely, restorative place! We'll be back next November--our 12th year! We are already on the books for Nov. 14-19 and trying (by participants' request) to add some extra days! www.paulamariecoomer.com/clearwater-w...

I love having this new space where I feel anonymous. I've not posted notice of my arrival here on FB, my usual stomping grounds. And won't. Kind of feels like singing in the shower or dancing when no one is looking, you know? Photo is of my goofy Zentangle art, one way to get through ridiculousness.