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Category Archives: Books
Which Blog To Follow?
Hi folks, Just want to make sure you’re not missing out on visiting my new website, which is where my blog can now be found. Check it out at http://joanzrough.com. Since I won’t be posting here anymore, I want you … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Life, Memoir, Writing
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Memoir: Two You’ll Love
“Through my identification with another girl who could write what I couldn’t begin to think, I discovered a way to break out of the socialized story into something else, something new … my own voice. I began to see how … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Journey, Wise Words
Tagged Feeding the Soul, Moving Forward
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Good News!
Good news! My new website is getting closer to being finished and my memoir progresses. Once my website is up, you’ll find out the title of my book and get to read Chapter One. Hopefully you’ll get a hint of … Continue reading
Posted in Being Creative, Books, Healthy Living, Life, Memoir, The Journey, Time, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Intentions, Moving Forward, Reading
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ABOUT PTSD AND RECOVERY
I was in my mid-sixties when a therapist first suggested that I was suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My response was, “No. Impossible.” Dr. B. handed me a book and asked me to read several pages out loud. When I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fear, Healing, Life, Memoir, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Trauma
Tagged Anxiety, mental-health, PTSD, shell shock, traumatic stress disorder
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Painting Spring
Water soaked grey sky pure tones of birch magnolia, forsythia spring green leaves redbud Raindrop music fills the air my paint brush drips with color JZR I made these photographs and wrote this poem back in April of 2008, posting … Continue reading
Posted in Being Creative, Books, Memoir, photography, Poetry, The Garden, The Seasons
Tagged arts, Change, journaling, Moving Forward, nature, new life, Painting, plants, Spring, wonder
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The Courage Of A Seed
“In nature, we are quietly offered countless models of how to give ourselves over to what appears dark and hopeless, but which ultimately is an awakening beyond our imagining. All around us, everything small and buried surrenders to a process … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Healing, Kindness, love, Matters of the Spirit, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Seasons, Wise Words
Tagged Courage, Feeding the Soul, Mark Nepo, Moving Forward, nature, plants, Reading, Seeding, Spring
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Don’ Give Up
I’ve been running into those words often for a couple of days now as I try to get myself back into my daily routine and at work on my memoir. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dogs, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, Healing, Life, love, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Garden, Time, Uncategorized, Wise Words, Writing
Tagged Easter, Grandchildren, Harry Potter, Intentions, joy, laughter, loss, Moving Forward, Shirley Showalter, Traveling, Virginia Festival of the Book
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Compassion And Being Enough
During the last seven years of my mother’s life, I was her caretaker. Except for the last five months of her life, she lived in my home with me and my husband, Bill. It was a hard time for all … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Caring for an aging parent, Compassion, family, Fear, Kindness, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, Wise Words
Tagged Aging, failure, forgetting, Guilt, loss, love, Narcissism, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Pain, Relationships, responsibility
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