Thoughts from Joan
Story of the Week, December 18, Christmas Comes
Hello, angel lovers. This is the last of our stories for 2009. Is it my imagination, or did this year fly by? We
have a serious prayer need this year: our friends, the Cayces—who we help support in Thornton, Arkansas—have a son Daniel, who is himself an earth angel. Many of us have watched him grow [...]
Podcast #2: Joan on Spirited Talk Today
Podcast #2: Joan on Spirited Talk Today - run time 23:17
Podcast #1: Joan on Spirited Talk Today
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How sick is sick?
From Guideposts.com
With the seasonal blast of flu viruses—and many doctors’ offices still without the vaccine— is there anything we can do to avoid getting sick? A few nights ago, the TV news featured a rabbi explaining that hugs had been discontinued at his synagogue for fear of members passing the virus to one another. He [...]
Story of the Week, September 11, 2009 Remembering
—All through this day, 9/11/09, I have tried to come up with a theme for our angel newsletter due today. It’s been difficult.
—I had the honor and privilege of being able to interview the last survivor of the World Trade Center bombing, whose story ultimately appeared in my book, IN THE ARMS OF ANGELS. At [...]
Review of “Angels and Demons” movie
I hesitated to review the movie Angels and Demons for Guideposts.com. I hadn’t read the book; I hadn’t even read author Dan Brown’s wildly popular The Da Vinci Code, nor seen the film based on it. Given this lack of background, I wondered if it would be unwise to review the new Angels and Demons [...]
Story of the Week July 3 2009, Give it to God
Hello, friends. Hope you are enjoying the arrival of summer. Just a couple of announcements:
–For those of you who have been thinking about writing to Extreme Makeovers to submit JoAnn Cayce’s name for a new roof for their gym, here is how you do that: Go to www.ExtremeHomeMakeovers.com and click on the right-hand side for [...]
This Old House
As the moving van pulled away from our front door that day, I could hardly believe that we had purchased our very first home (and, as Spouse very definitely assured me sometime later), our last. Modest, unassuming and wearing a woebegone look stemming from years of neglect, it was nevertheless something we had dreamed [...]
A House is not a Home Without a Private Gnome
There’s a gnome living in my home. Oh, we’ve never met, but I know he exists, because traces of his devilish doings are everywhere.
For example, Gnome is a compulsive collector, but only at particular times. Large boxes of band-aids and gauze can gather dust for months, poised and ready in my linen closet. But at [...]
Door Slams Unhinge Mom
One sunny Saturday, being laid up with the flu and unable to do much else, I kept a careful count of how often the back door was opened and closed. The final toll came to 412 times. In one day.
Considering that I was contagiously out-of-commission, the baby was unwillingly confined to the playpen, [...]
