The time a bird appeared on your path as a harbinger of things to pass. When you took the bubble bath in blue-lit motel room drunk on bad beer and heartbreak and Hey Hey My My was playing from a parked car outside. You gave kind advice to a little girl in an elevator hours after you binged + purged your 27th birthday cake. The story you lived through whose beginning, middle + end you’ve never truly told yourself. When you lost your way, your job, your best friend, your bearings, your one true love, your looks, your socks, your sanity, your sense of purpose. Are you stuck in the cosmic muck of your Saturn Return, of new sobriety, new motherhood, new marriage-hood, fresh grief, fresh grace, madness, sadness, metamorphosis? Welcome to my “Saved by the Story’s” 5-week Memoir Writing Workshop called “Bones + Butterflies” for foxes in flux who want to put pen to paper and do some rigorous free radical deep diving into the recesses of their imagination and ask themselves: “who am I”, “"why am I here,” and “how shall I live?”. Through writing exercises, workshops and experimental prompts, you'll start to abandon artistic inhibition, become comfortable with creative discomfort, embrace your authentic voice and identify your unapologetic personal style. Outside of class you will be required to read/listen to essays, TED talks, podcasts, poems by Mary Gaitskill, Maya Angelou, Hannah Gadsby, Amy Hempel, Toni Morrison and more, write at least 5 pages a week and comment on other student work. Magic happens when people put down their devices, tune in, tune out, and gather around a table with pen and paper.