Peggy Warren's Blog – July 2015 Archive (4)

I’ve been an artist almost all my life, beginning when I was introduced to oil painting as a teenager at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. I remember so well painting the face of a young man who sat for us. I’d never lifted a brush before, but for some miraculous reason, after a brief lesson from the teacher, I got a perfect likeness. I then went on to study portrait painting throughout my school years and by the age of 25, I was a pretty popular portrait painter, more or less the…

Every day we face issues that we have to deal with, and by the end of the day we often feel the urge to release our pent up emotions. You know what I do whenever I feel stressed or bothered? I write. I would write whatever comes into my mind. This allows me to flush out any negativity I am feeling. It allows me to explore my thoughts, and it also gives me new insights and fresh hope. This is why I keep a journal.



Writing in a journal will give you some time to look at yourself.…

Today my heart has been totally revitalized by the discovery of the 25th anniversary of Peggy Warren’s “Very Much a Woman’s Book.”  Y’see I’m the friend who was lucky enough to get these writings, before publication, on my fiftieth birthday, a time in my life that was very difficult. I had no words for the pain I was feeling, but in Peggy’s poems I found not only words, but comfort, true connection and sometimes even relief from the pain. Peggy is a true master of simple, yet powerful, even…

A review by Sally Watkins, Boulder CO

It has been 25 years since Peggy Warren published her book “Very Much a Woman’s Book”. Since then more than 20,000 copies of the book have been sold. The publication of this collection of poems and drawings  has a very interesting story behind it. It all began when Peggy went to a bookstore to get a meaningful book for a friend who was turning fifty and was newly divorced. The result of her visit to the store is…