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Meet The Dream Up Now Team

Rayne Lacko

The Dream Up Now Author Rayne Lacko is a Young Adult author and advocate for the arts as a form of social and emotional well-being. Cohost of a youth creative workshop, an annual writing camp, and a teen arts showcase, she inspires teens and their families to use creativity—through writing, art, and music—to stimulate positive change in the world. Rayne lives near Seattle, Washington.

Lesley Holmes

Lesley Holmes contributes her expertise to several educational and arts nonprofits benefitting children, teens, and older adults in and around Los Angeles. Her work promotes alternative therapies, music education, literacy, and food as a pathway to healing. A lifelong chef and baker, Lesley is a Los Angeles native who enjoys early morning hikes in the Hollywood Hills where she lives with her two teenage daughters.

Dream Up Now:
THE TEEN JOURNAL
FOR CREATIVE SELF-DISCOVERY

by Rayne Lacko with community outreach advisor Lesley Holmes

Now available from Free Spirit Publishing, a leader in academic resources since 1983. Teens feel a wide range of sometimes-overwhelming, often-fluctuating, intense emotions. To help teens understand, manage, and channel their emotions into passion for the life they want to live, this guided journal includes 36 creative activities. Crafted by community leaders across North America, these activities encourage teens to create, draw, listen to music, and put pen to paper as they process emotions, discover more about themselves, and pursue what they want out of life.

Meet The Dream Up Now Team

Rayne Lacko

Lesley Holmes

Dream Up Now:THE TEEN JOURNAL FOR CREATIVE SELF-DISCOVERY

by Rayne Lacko with community outreach advisor Lesley Holmes

Dream Up Now:
THE TEEN JOURNAL
FOR CREATIVE SELF-DISCOVERY