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Take Up Space: Art is Your Second Act
A guide to living creatively, vibrantly, and unapologetically after fifty.

What if your best years — your most creative, passionate, fulfilling years — are just beginning?

Inspired by Jenny Joseph’s iconic poem “When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple,” Take Up Space invites you to turn joyful rebellion into lasting self-expression. Whether you paint, dance, garden, write, or dress like the masterpiece you are, art can become your path to meaning, vitality, and connection.

This book is for anyone ready to:

Reinvent life after 50 through creativity and self-expression.
Stay mentally sharp, physically active, and joyfully engaged.
Build community through shared artistic adventures.
Turn small moments into daily acts of creation.

With warmth, humor, and practical guidance, author Catharine Bramkamp shows that making art — in any form — keeps you active, connected, and alive to life’s joys and possibilities.

It’s time to stop shrinking back and start showing up.
Pick up a brush, a pen, or your favorite red hat — and take up space.

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Out Loud

A Writing Adventure for Women

Learn how to tap into your creativity, organize your next non-fiction book, and embrace your writing life!

To Attract the Muse

Show up every day.
Show up on time.
Write really boring stuff, I’m looking at you sad and complaining.
Bored with your thoughts? Keep writing.
Thank the Muse with acknowledgements,
but not at a crowded party, that may sound weird.

Same Dreadful Typewriter – Poetry Collages

What if Sylvia Beach and James Joyce exchanged quips in their work? They may have.

What if Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot debated love and death? They could have.

What if Walt Whitman could finally address Emily Dickinson’s insults? Probably never did.

An imaginative venture into what we say when we write and how collaging the work of famous poets forms new stories and deeper insights into our favorite artists.

Stealing All the Blue – UnConscious Words

Stealing All the Blue is a collection of short poems lifted from the long-forgotten manuscripts and letters of women of the 19th and 20th centuries who were pivotal contributors to our culture yet largely forgotten. These poems surprised me with their expression of the women’s inner lives and get closer to a truth that has until now, been hidden.

Poetry Collection is available now!

Poet as Scribe – UnConscious Words

This collection of poems was built using words found in famous books like Ulysses and On the Road. What was created is a poetry collection that expresses these novels in new and sometimes astonishing ways. Catharine takes work we think we already know, and delivers a fresh insight. You’ll never look at Little Women the same again.

A fresh insight to novels we think we already know. Expressive, astonishing, insightful. A way back into classics. Like an on-line summary. But different.

Sad Music for the Perfect Soul – UnConscious Words

Poetic responses to the UnConscious Words of Ulysses by James Joyce

And I said, with rapture, here is something I can study all my life,

and never understand. – Finnegans Wake

You may have heard of Bloomsday – June 16th, the single day in the 643 page (more or less) novel Ulysses. On that day, Joyce fans dress in circa 1904 fashions and parade the streets of Dublin cheerfully, haphazardly or academically following the narrative of James Joyce’s famous book.

Maybe you’ve read Ulysses, maybe you’ve been avoiding it all your life. Maybe this is your chance to enter the book through poetry!

The Best Seller Edition – UnConscious Words

UnConscious Words – Best Seller Edition celebrates a former best-selling book’s second life.

Once full-price hardcover-darlings, these popular books were found crammed into the back shelves at Goodwill and used to inspire poems of illumination and surprising insights. Who knew Fifty Shades of Gray could be poetic?

Sunk Cost

All Grown Up – No Adult Supervision

Two years of lock down and no one knows how to behave. But embezzlement, smuggling, bombs and murder seems a little extreme, even in Northern Ireland. But Vic Gardner is willing to take any risk in order to escape her apartment As her brief trip to Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way is complicated by both her nephews as well as Nic, her ex-boyfriend, she is confronted with the question: stay with what she knows? Or throw everything over for something new?

And at what cost?

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Welcome to my Kindle series - the Real Estate Diva Mysteries

Purchase one, two, or all of the

The Real Estate Diva Mysteries

You won’t be disappointed.

Large and in charge. Allison Little considers herself the foremost, most fabulous real estate agent in Sonoma County until she discovers a dead body in her new listing. Allison not only attracts more than her share of mayhem, but she also attracts the attention of Ben Stone, tall, handsome, and resistant to every one of her up until now, successful pitches.
There is an official form to cover an untimely death in a new listing? Is the murderer still at large?

“Catharine has a keen eye on the world around her and the rare ability to translate what she sees in life into beautiful prose. Her words are not only witty and acerbic but also insightful and poignant.”

Leslie Wirtley – Runaway Heart (Velvet Seduction Press)

“All those five AM stints have paid off. You are a damn good writer.”

Hank Mattimore – Grandpa to a Children’s Village (Caritas Communications)

Deep Trouble

When Senior moments become dangerous.

Vic Gardner is an independent 60-something heroine who can’t keep out of trouble. And it’s not like she doesn’t have help.

Her nephew in California disappears, her sister-in-law insists it’s Vic’s job to find him.

Her upstairs neighbor’s tub overflows, again.

Her ex stops over with another marriage proposal and a mysterious warning,

And her manicurist found a clue to an 18th-century female artist that could be the discovery of the decade.

Can she find her nephew without a trip to California?

Who else is looking for this artist and her work?

Why does she have to be married at all?

And which is worse, trespassing or being buried alive?

Vic is in deep trouble.

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After I'm Buried Alive

A senior adventure about a second chance to make more bad choices.

As the only single woman in the family, Victoria Gardner was always expected to drop everything in her unconventional life to rush home and take care of conventional family emergencies. After three longs years caring for her dying parents, her brothers assume she’s home for good, ready to be the helpful aunt -forever.

But when her best friend and former lover mysteriously dies, all of Vic’s colorful, and some would say, regrettable past rushes in to claim her back. She must return to Venice, the city of her best and worst times, promising to return in twenty-four hours so her brother and his wife can take his booked cruise. It doesn’t go as planned. Vic is immediately tangled in far more intrigue and romance than any family member believes she deserves.

Just short of sixty, is it still possible to experience love? Can she throw herself into a new adventure without throwing out her back? What if all her bad choices were the right ones all along?

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Catharine Bramkamp is a writing and book coach with an MA in creative writing.

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Indulge in A Few Good Reads

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