Steve’s Regular Blog: Are You Afraid of Massage?

The body speaks. If we quiet our mind, we can hear its wisdom. Grace Ku, OneBody Massage The other night, Sarah and I were watching a film by John Turturro called Fading Gigolo. I was falling asleep, but at one point the Turturro character strokes the back of the widow of a Hasidic rabbi, a haunting character played by Vanessa …

Come to Our Book Party Saturday, Aug. 30, at 4 p.m.

It’s a book party! Join us at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods on Saturday, August 30, starting at 4 p.m., for a party celebrating Wellstone Books’ upcoming publication of OneBody Massage, a book from Google massage therapist Grace Ku (that’s her in the picture) all about using massage as a tool for couples to grow closer together and bring …

Join us for OpenMic Night Every Tuesday at at 7 p.m. WCR

  If you’ve got a book you’re working on and you’d like to share, you’ve got musical talent and want to liven up our sessions with a song or two, or you just would like to sit and listen and offer some constructive feedback, come join our regular OpenMic Night every Tuesday starting at 7 p.m. This is an intimate, …

Apply Now for the WCR Writing Fellowship

Throughout the year, the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, located near Santa Cruz, California, offers monthlong fellowships for visiting writers. Applications for our next writing fellowship, this November, are due by October 10. For details, see below. THE WCR FELLOWSHIP We offer a setting of spectacular beauty sure to inspire any writer not only to find new directions to make …