Imagination-Arts​ Publications

Judith Peck, Ed.D. I took a stand, told him that heavy hands would not be tolerated, but I did not cry, I did not whine, I did not consider leaving him, at least for more than an overnight. I was an electrical engineer, a competent professional, a nurturing mother and…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. An unusual bi-product of infidelity is renewed interest in your husband, unless the infidelity is on-going, in which case sex with a spouse has the opposite effect. Whether it was a charged up sense of my womanliness or the guilt of “straying” and wanting to make it…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. Arielle talks to her 18-year old daughter, Cara, who has moved from her dorm to live with a brilliant but surly young man in a passage from Seeing in the Dark, Arielle’s Story: I paused and prepared to talk slowly, not my usual style, more like that of…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. With her 11-year old son only wait-listed for the team, Mom was given a choice: they needed referees, volunteers who would go out there in the wind and the chill, weathering not only nature but a ball glancing off the head, a kick in the shin, a…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. Does anyone remember the joy of folding diapers–no I’m serious? Warm and clean from the dryer, all that was expected of you was to lift a bunch, set this down and with two swift folds, set each in its neat little pile. So easy and productive a…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. The dry leaf leaps across the white frozen surface born by a breeze like the brilliant ideas galloping in my head. But then it stops. Is this to collect itself, in need of another push or buried beneath a soft patch of snow? I wait and for…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. We Should Try It More Often.  Such a blah word, “nice”: a simple, ignorable state of being; a disposition to take little note of; belongs in the category of elevator music. Being nice to your spouse of partner? Who thinks about that with so many pressing demands…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. Serenity in a baby occurs when she has no need to focus on her nagging innards. She is then free to perceive the outside world, explore it and begin to make those important neural brain connections. But along with responding to physical needs to create a serene…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. Fall is what we do with love relationships, like trip or stumble, or roll head over heels; something precarious. It felt like an accident, surely something I didn’t plan on. Well, he was interesting; not a boring thing about him, always something new and challenging to be…

Judith Peck, Ed.D. How to get started creatively in the morning, to start in on the stuff no one else cares about? You feel despicable and cannot stand yourself. Needless to say you have other things that must be done. You have chores, you have some kind of business, you…