Dana Laquidara believes that creativity, simplifying and healing are all interwoven and she writes about all three in her first book THE UNCLUTTERED MOTHER: FREE UP YOUR SPACE, MIND & HEART. Dana’s essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, , Literary Mama, Brain Child Magazine, Boston Mamas, The Grub Daily, Mothers Always Write, and elsewhere. Her writing has won awards in the 76th Writer’s Digest essay competition and in The Creative Well.
Dana has participated in several Boston Moth storytelling events and took first place while performing a piece from her newest book, YOU-KNOW-WHO An Alienated Daughter’s Memoir. She has spoken to local and international audiences.
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Dana,
I became acquainted with your name through the Thrivers mailing. I looked forward to receiving the news letter for insight and inspiration. I’m a retired chemist and have been alienated from my two boys for 17 years. The journey has had many phases, a range of emotions and though processes-behavior changes/struggles.
Regards
Bill
Thank you for reaching out, Bill. I’m so glad you signed up for my newsletter. I am so sorry to hear about the alienation.
Hello Dana! I found your book by chance a month or two ago in the new Upton library and was of course moved by your story, and felt the call to reconnect with you when appropriate. We met when I opened a small yoga studio in Whitinsville in 2011, and I still have a poster that you gave me hanging in my bedroom.
I chose to contact you now in my new work as in intern with Bread for the World, which is a Christian-based non-profit agency advocating for legislation to continue to support issues of food insecurity. Would you consider meeting with me for 30 minutes or so to see if we intersect in any way?
Hello! I am so glad you found my book. Lets connect via email danalaq@gmail.com Thanks!