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A soft, poetic approach to help women blossom through times of burnout, grief, and loss using stream-of-consciousness writing.
through the healing power of poetry
I didn't find my creative voice. I built her, word by word, brushstroke by brushstroke, one story at a time.
Welcome to Peonies & Prose: a creative cosmos where books, art, poetry, and Riviera dispatches collide.
Bonjour,
I'm Sandi D., author; artist; and astrologer, currently based on the French Riviera. I left my lifelong dual career path in publishing and international education to pursue my creative endeavors: painting, writing poetry & memoir, and capturing the Mediterranean hue changes.
Creativity isn't a talent you're born with or a hobby you squeeze into weekends. It's a daily practice, and lately, a slower one.
The simple joys count. The pivot at midlife counts, too.
Right now that practice includes a third poetry collection, and a page in the memoir about landing in a place my own chart pointed to years before I understood why.
This is your invitation to join me.
What lives here
My books: Poetry and stories that don't hide behind a mask. Two collections out: Dragonfly Dances and Her Voice, Unmuted, with a third taking shape, and a memoir finding its way onto the page.
My art: Visual work that begins where language runs out, from the shifting blues of the Mediterranean to pieces exhibited at Smithsonian-affiliated venues in Washington D.C., Rockville, and Montréal.
Creative Hot Flash: An astrology and astrocartography practice for women rebuilding a creative life at midlife. Chart readings, guides, the Creativity Checkup, and the maps that show why certain longitudes feel like home and others never do.
Riviera Current: Coming soon. A dispatch from the Côte d'Azur, on Substack. Creativity, light, and the people making both on this stretch of coast.
"Creativity isn't waiting for you to feel ready. It's been simmering inside of you, ready to ignite, in a creative hot flash!"
⁓ Sandi D.
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Creative Hot Flash
/ Noun /
The life stage when the creativity you set aside insists on being lived out loud again. Not a flaw. A season.
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