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Tuesday, August 20

By on August 21, 2013 in Joanie's blog

So I’m going back to teach Service Learning at Skyline.  I haven’t been there since February of 2011 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I made a quick exit.  I understood immediately that the treatment and healing phase of this disease would take all my energy.  I thought my teaching days were over […]

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Friday, June 7

By on June 8, 2013 in Joanie's blog

I have been so busy this week with hardly a minute to sit down and write in my blog which I really love to do and need.  It’s so good for the soul to write down your thoughts- then I discover when I put down in writing what some of this stuff means.  Since it’s […]

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Monday, May 6

By on May 6, 2013 in Joanie's blog

I just talked to a friend who recently found a lump in her breast.  She had a mild form of breast cancer about 9 years ago, did radiation but no chemo-therapy.  She is going through this again and is having a hard time deciding what she should do.  I went to a doctor visit with […]

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Monday, February 24

By on February 26, 2013 in Joanie's blog

Taylor and Katie are engaged!  Taylor has been planning this asking day for a while.  He pictured a beautiful, sunny blue sky day up at Snowbird. This is how it was suppose to go: they would be skiing and then take the lift to the highest point possible and there on top with views of […]

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Friday, February 22

By on February 22, 2013 in Quote of the Day

“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.  Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.  Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.  Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.  One day I shall […]

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Friday, February 1

By on February 1, 2013 in Joanie's blog

The weather is finally warming up and even though we have piles of snow and ice around the driveway, it actually looks a bit like a tunnel as you enter, it feels as though we can go outside again to exercise.  It must be February!  Truly, no one in my running group wanted to venture […]

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Wednesday, January 23

By on January 23, 2013 in Joanie's blog

I went to yoga class today- this cute girl, Wendy, up the street from me just finished 1,000 hours of training and has opened up classes in her home.  I loved being in her home and seeing how she decorates and getting a sense of what she is all about, pictures on the wall of […]

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Friday, January 4, 2013

By on January 5, 2013 in Joanie's blog

Willa Cather’s quote “Why, when I was writing about it, it came right out of the ink bottle” describes just how I felt in regards to my blog when I was first diagnosed with cancer but now when life is going good, don’t get me wrong, there are always weeds in the field, the writing […]

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History of Love

By on December 13, 2012 in Great Reads

The History of Love –Nicole Krauss   Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. . . . Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old […]

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My Antonia

By on December 10, 2012 in Great Reads

Willa Cather’s My Antonia What I love about this novel is how the environment reflects the hardships these immigrant families must go through to make it.  The people become stronger because of the harshness of the landscape.  I’m attracted to novels that show people overcoming obstacles all while knowing that they will benefit the next […]

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