by Joanne | Dec 27, 2018 | Learning How to do This
About nine months after becoming a single mother, I attended my first swing dance. Imagine a room full of vintage-at heart people…newsboy hats, oxford shoes, pincurls and the prettiest dresses. All to the rock and sway of jazzy music. I fell in love with it that...
by Joanne | Oct 24, 2017 | Learning How to do This, My Journal
On what had been a particularly horrible day, a faithful friend invited me over for a long walk through the woods to talk and to be bolstered. Afterwards, she invited me for dinner with her and her family. Together, she and I crowded...
by Joanne | May 23, 2017 | Learning How to do This, My Journal
Lounging there, I checked the text on my phone. It was a response from a friend. I read her message, responded, then tossed the phone back to the end of the bed. Except clumsy me didn’t toss it as soft as I had meant to. It skipped right off of the edge of the...
by Joanne | Feb 23, 2017 | Learning How to do This, My Journal
“I’m too sad to write.” I heard a friend say this just the other night at a small writer’s retreat we attended. Too sad to write. Yes. I know this. She was referring to her own heart-trial, and though the words weren’t spoken for me, it...
