Writing with Regan
Everybody has a story to tell.
“Your course is absolutely the best for the people who are beginning a long journey, and who need nourishment and reassurance that it's going to be alright as long as we keep writing. Thank you for teaching us that we do not write from our brains but with our body. It has been a life changing idea for me. The exploration of my mind has been less overwhelming in your presence and this writing workshop came just at the right time.” —Sidra Mobin, 2022
A serene writing space and learning community.
If you're looking for writing resources, a supportive environment and increased confidence in your abilities, you have come to the right place. Whether you want to get published or to simply tell your story, this is the space where you will learn to emerge and spread your wings.
I believe everyone has important stories to tell, and we all have the innate ability to tell them. My teaching method has been carefully honed to inspire, to build confidence, and to show that we all have a writer lurking within who will be encouraged to emerge within a safe and welcoming space.
Feel free to explore my website, check out my course offerings, and see what past and current students have said about their experiences.
All courses are offered in my private writing studio in Champlain Heights unless otherwise specified.
"Ten years from now, I hope you will be sitting up some night at midnight under the light at the kitchen table – writing. Not because you have a paper due the next day or because someone has given you an ‘assignment’ – but because you are hurting or grieving or confused, or because you are collecting some of the small joys of your day, or because you need to let go of some anger. Whatever the reason, you’ll be sitting there at that table writing because you are a writer. My wish is for you to be a lifelong writer. My hope is that writing will be a tool – an emotional, intellectual, and spiritual tool – to help you survive and grow and find meaning and purpose and peace in your life.”
— from Writing and Being by G. Lynn Nelson
“Vancouver in the Rain”*- Story Stone
It is probably fair to say that one of the things for which Vancouver is most famous is rain. It is true that it can and will rain here for weeks on end. Several years ago I found myself coming close to being thoroughly disgusted with the rain, unusual for me as it usually bothers me not at all. I was walking home from work and was mumbling under my breath the whole way, carrying on about how this weather was suited only to ducks. The building I lived in at the time was a large square building surrounding a brick courtyard. I came around the corner into the courtyard and there, to my amazement, was a beautiful white Peking duck, having a ball in a huge puddle in the middle of the courtyard. It was quacking and splashing with such obvious delight that I had to smile, glad that such joy could be found in the grey wetness of such a day.
I, for one, really love the rain in Vancouver. I have been told that the Inuit have hundreds of words for snow. I have often thought we don’t have nearly enough words for rain, for there are so many types of rain. There is soft rain and hard rain, straight rain and sideways rain, rain that makes you instantly wet, and rain that leaves soft kisses on your cheek, like the wings of a butterfly. There is cold rain and warm rain, go out for a walk rain and stay in bed with the cats rain. There is booming rain and whispery rain, rain that lulls you to sleep and rain that sings you awake. The rain brings us all the shades of grey, but it also brings us the wonderful greenery which surrounds and blesses us.
*The text above is what was originally submitted to the City of Vancouver Millennium Project. The text on the Stone itself was edited by the City of Vancouver.