The Way of StoryEast & West: Stories of India now in India, UK, and USA
This particular collection of stories is imagined – though sometimes inspired by fact. They came about because of a marriage that carried me away to far- off India, which became my spiritual home. From my own experience of living many years in India, the sublime mythology of this great and complex culture so permeates the personal that myth often becomes reality – and reality, myth.
The aim of these stories is to serve as a kind of portal into the daily lives and emotional realities that reflect the rich depth and humanity that is India.
Catherine Ann Jones
Ojai, California
Lost in Liminal Space
Liminal is defined as the space between ‘what was’ and ‘what next’. Creatives often find themselves in liminal space between projects. The artist subsists on the goal of completing a work. However, once the exhilaration of completion subsides, the void beckons. This is often experienced as deserved and much needed rest, collapse, restlessness, self-doubt, confusion. […]
From the Known to the Unknown
From the Known to the Unknown by Catherine Ann Jones In every work of art something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know. – Ann Hamilton A writer is a pioneer who begins with something known and then embarks […]
The Perfect Gift
Psychic Readings with Catherine Ann Jones 50 years- experience as a psychic reader with clients both here and abroad. The readings cover recent past, current, and up to a year in the future. For appointments: [email protected] (Available for live readings in Ojai, CA […]
What Makes a Writer?
What then is a writer when he isn’t actually writing? the following is a dialogue I am having Flaubert, a favorite author of mine, long gone but his work and his letters remain. In these letters, I see a fine example of how a writer works when not writing. “That isn’t to say that I […]
Santa Barbara Writers Conference June 19-23, 2023
Join me in The Way of Story: The craft & soul of writing, 5 mornings during this wonderful conference in Santa Barbara, CA, along with agents & editors from NY and LA. And meet other writers like yourself. Isn’t it time to write your story? Catherine Ann Jones, wayofstory.com
The Women of Cedar Creek
I wrote this dysfunctional family play over 30 years ago, thinking it was a play I was compelled to write this very personal story then would put it away in a drawer and move on to other work. Imagine my surprise when so many responded, recognizing their own families. A great lesson for this young […]
Isn’t it time to write your story?
Isn’t it time to write your story? There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou (in Last Lecture) In the beginning was story. The caveman rushed back to his tribe and excitedly acted out his […]
Elephants & Perspective
The gift of Art rests in the artist’s perspective. – Catherine Ann Jones Dinner with Violette Verdy, just returned from a NY City Ballet Tour of Russia & Poland, also Paris. At the Opera de’Paris, Violette danced Giselle to raves! I mentioned seeing our friend, Madeline Malraux, who played Stravinsky’s Circus Polka at her […]