# Audacious Creative Lives

Sharing my own audacious journey from academia to a more creative life.

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## [Flight: I Start to Date in London & Discover A Woman Writer “rejoicing fiercely in her aloneness"](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/starting-to-date-in-london-and-a)

_2026-08-13 · Anne Boyd_

The Commotion of Love, Part I

## [Why Did I Come to England?](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/why-did-i-come-to-england)

_2026-07-30 · Anne Boyd_

Chasing Dreams and Happy Memories

## [I Want to Fall in Love Again--This Time With a House](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/i-want-to-fall-in-love-again-this)

_2026-07-25 · Anne Boyd_

Reflections on Online Dating and Under the Tuscan Sun

## [Gods and Men: How Dora Maar Survived Picasso](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/gods-and-men-how-dora-maar-survived)

_2026-07-23 · Anne Boyd_

On loving men and loving solitude more

## [Revisiting Menerbes, in Provence](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/revisiting-menerbes-in-provence)

_2026-07-18 · Anne Boyd_

And remembering my time with Dora Maar, in her house

## [Haunted by Dora Maar](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/haunted-by-dora-maar)

_2026-07-16 · Anne Boyd_

And meeting Adam Gopnick in the Kitchen

## [Entering My Real Estate Phase](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/entering-my-real-estate-phase)

_2026-07-11 · Anne Boyd_

Reflections on What Makes a House a Home, and Deborah Levy's Real Estate

## [Disappearing in Provence](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/disappearing-in-provence)

_2026-07-09 · Anne Boyd_

Starting My Month at the Dora Maar House

## [Revisiting the Writer Who Inspired Me to Change My Life](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-writer-who-inspired)

_2026-07-04 · Anne Boyd_

And Reflecting and Reorienting While I'm in France

## [Following Kay Boyle Out of the Abyss](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/following-kay-boyle-out-of-the-abyss)

_2026-07-02 · Anne Boyd_

And Sinking My Teeth Into a New Life

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## [Dreaming of a Move to France](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/dreaming-of-a-move-to-france)

_2026-06-27 · Anne Boyd_

But can I handle the heat waves?

## [Following Kay Boyle to Paris](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/following-kay-boyle-to-paris)

_2026-06-25 · Anne Boyd_

And the choice between writing her life or living my own

## [Does a Happy Ending Mean Finding Love?](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/does-a-happy-ending-mean-finding)

_2026-06-18 · Anne Boyd_

And what if you have no idea what that means anymore?

## [Journaling Changed My Life](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/journaling-changed-my-life)

_2026-06-13 · Anne Boyd_

Has it ever changed yours?

## [Am I Really Going To Do This For a Year?](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/am-i-really-going-to-do-this-for)

_2026-06-11 · Anne Boyd_

I've arrived in Paris and things don't get off to a smooth start

## [Writing a Memoir--And Sharing It--Is Terrifying](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/writing-a-memoir-and-sharing-it-is)

_2026-06-06 · Anne Boyd_

Writing a memoir is difficult on so many levels.

## [In Pieces](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/in-pieces)

_2026-06-04 · Anne Boyd_

I felt like a broken plate . . .

## [Flight, the Memoir: A Year in Search of a Passionate Life](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/flight-a-year-in-search-of-a-passionate)

_2026-06-03 · Anne Boyd_

The Full List of Installments As They Are Published

## [Moms Don't Get One-Way Tickets to Paris](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/moms-dont-get-one-way-tickets-to)

_2026-05-30 · Anne Boyd_

FLIGHT: Starting Out in New Orleans

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## [The Story You Haven't Heard](https://anneboydrioux.substack.com/p/the-story-you-havent-heard)

_2026-05-23 · Anne Boyd_

How it all began . . . Leaving home in search of a new life.