See the World Through Your Own Unique Lens
Everything we have seen and done, our memories and all of our experiences, contribute to forming our perspective, and that perspective is expressed creatively through our own unique lens on the world.
Appreciating 2023, Looking Forward to SPARKS FLY Retreats in 2024
After a long and irksome wait due to COVID-19, SPARKS FLY retreats were finally able to hold our first two workshops in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The retreats went better than we could have ever anticipated. And there are more to come!
An Inspiring Creativity Training Workshop
It was wonderful to watch participants find their unique creative voices, and find them they did. Some discovered talents they never knew they had, some honed skills they had merely danced around and others found the validation to embrace the gifts they suspected they had, but could not commit to.
Get Your Creativity Flowing
Are you afraid to put pen to paper, or paint to canvas? Does a daunting sheet of blank paper bring dread into your heart? Do you wonder what could you possibly have to express to the world? Are you stuck? Do not fear. Everybody is creative! Including you.
Celebrating Our First SPARKS FLY Retreat
Allegra Huston’s Imaginative Storm Memoir Writing Workshop began on May 22 2023, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Ending on May 27, this five-day workshop was really worth the wait!
Get Into Lunenburg
Excited about your memoir writing retreat with Allegra Houston in Lunenburg this May? So are we! And to give you some ideas for your free time, we’ve got a quick guide to inspiring sights, tasty hotspots, and a few other things to do in Lunenburg during your stay.
Start Your Memoir in Lunenberg
Travel+Leisure magazine ranks Lunenburg as #6 of in its list of 16 beautiful coastal towns around the world. It’s so picture-perfect it’s often used as a film stand-in for traditional coastal New England.
Memoirs Are a Flexible Medium
Memoirs are a flexible medium. There is more than one way to tell your story, just as the old saying goes, ‘there are many ways to skin a cat’ – or, less violently, to peel an orange.
Explore Your Creativity and Start Writing in 2023
Make 2023 the year you find your creative voice and put pen to paper, the year you chose not to be intimidated and overcome your fears.
Memoir Gift-Giving Ideas for Christmas
Memoirs can illuminate, inspire, educate, or simply provide an escape from our own lives by dipping into someone else’s extraordinary — or ordinary — life. Here are some great gift-giving ideas in the form of an eclectic selection of memoirs.