Product Description

In this personal, inspiring guide to a creative life, Wooldridge shares her own journey of the heart—from loss and grief to a return to wholeness and joy. Offering poetry exercises, journal writing, and other practices to encourage creative play—including foraging and assembling collages with found objects—Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process will motivate you to reevaluate what’s most important in your world.

Through intimate stories about transforming what life brings your way, the book will help open your heart to more creativity—DELIGHT AND VITALITY—whether it’s through photography, dance, gardening, cooking, songwriting, or poetry. Foolsgold includes dozens of suggestions to help you free the artist within by cultivating a creative lifestyle that will not only expand and inspire you but may also ground and heal you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #250404 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-05
• Released on: 2007-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

About the Author
Susan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and with the California Poets in the Schools program. She is the author of PoemCrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, a Book Sense Pick and a long-running Quality Paperback Book Club selection and Writer’s Digest Book Club selection. She has also written a chapbook of poems, Bathing with Ants.

Customer Reviews

Foolsgold is indeed a gem....
I enjoyed the personal, conversational voice of Susan Wooldridge once again. In "Poemcrazy" she inspired me and gave me my most often referred to teaching tool. This time, in "Foolsgold," she let me know who she is. I wholeheartedly feel that this author is capable of affirming and uplifting any doubting creative soul. My only disappointment was not seeing either photographs of her "boxes" or more creative writing exercises included. I would love Susan to produce a "Poemcrazy II."

Susan G. Wooldridge is my hero.
Foolsgold changed my life in the most amazing way. I was not in a creative rut when I picked up the book, but I decided to check it out anyway, because I was in a general life rut that had been going on for too long. So I read Foolsgold, and everything changed. Susan G. Wooldridge gave me the courage to do things I have always wanted to do, and to ask for things out of life that I have been afraid to ask for, things that I did not think were possible. And guess what? I got what I asked for. Surprise, surprise! I have since given notice at my boring desk job, and I am now actively working with my husband towards opening our own small business. We bounce out of bed in the mornings discussing ideas- we are ecstatic about our future and our grand plans. This book lit many sparks that set my life into wonderful motion, and I smile a lot more than I did a month ago. I loved her honesty, encouragement, ideas, and sense of humor. It was such an delightful and comfortable read, it was as though I was reading a book that a close friend had written. I know that I will be reaching for the book again and again, and I am eternally grateful that I found it.

Foolsgold
Written in easy-to-read style. Very interesting. Couldn't put it down. Almost felt like I was there(maybe I was?)
Got me thinking in other, more poetic terms. Recently went on a all-night fishing trip with about 60-70 guys sitting with their stocking caps showing above their seats and my thoughts turned to the bright colors and the order of things, not about guys trying to keep warm. Felt like I was hooked, not the fish!
Greg C