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Author: Joan T Warren

Author Joan T. Warren retired from occupational therapy and addictions ministry, but still loves to build and maintain healthy relationships, encourage others in their journey toward wholeness, and engage creative skills such as writing, drawing, painting, dancing, home decorating, furniture refurbishing, and gardening. She's an active grandmother and great-grandmother who enjoys making wholesome development fun. Her faith is the quiet engine behind her life, so although she enjoys delivering inspirational messages, she dislikes preachy, controlling, guilt-trips just as much as you do! Read more about Joan under "About the Author" at joantwarren.com
Global Issues…

Embracing Diversity

24 Oct 202024 Oct 2020
As we approach election day in the USA, this previous post from 2017 seems especially relevant. Click on the link below and please, weigh in with your comments. For those…
Reflections…

Developing a Mission Statement for Fiction Novel

13 May 2020
You can help me decide! Here are a few shorter sentences that I'm developing to help guide revision of the upcoming novel, The Bent Tree Path. Here's your chance to…
Other Ventures…

Writing Through COVID-19

6 May 20206 May 2020
Hello Faithful Readers! First, my apologies for leaving you so long! Writing is a hobby for me, and sometimes I fall into placing my beloved hobbies last on my list…
Motivations…

Elusive Pleasures Part 5

19 Nov 2018
This is the last of a five-part series on Elusive Pleasures, in which we’re exploring losses, their associated neural connections and ways to adapt to changes and renew pleasure. In…
Midlife Blitz…

Elusive Pleasures: 10 Ways to Feel Better!

4 Jun 201824 Oct 2020
What if you could do some simple brain exercises to get more pleasure in your life? Would you be interested? What? Exercise my brain? How in the world do I…
Motivations…

Elusive Pleasures: Get the Feeling Back!

24 Jun 20171 Sep 2018
How can we get our brains to release that much-needed pleasure response again? We’ve looked at how easy it is to lose a good feeling. A simple change in sensation…
Motivations…

Elusive Pleasures: Aging with Erroneous Beliefs

12 Jun 20171 Sep 2018
  Last week I wrote about sprinkler heads. Why would anyone stop to read about sprinkler heads? Because it’s really about pleasure, and adapting to changes that block pleasure. Maybe…
Motivations…

Elusive Pleasures: Sprinklers in the Garden of Life

4 Jun 20171 Sep 2018
Comfortably settling into my spot on the back porch for Sunday morning coffee, I notice it. It doesn't feel quite right. Something is missing. What is it? The cushions and…
Global Issues…

Diversity

7 Feb 201724 Oct 2020
it burst forth from rock, high in the mountains- its journey before unseen. now resplendent with light, with movement, wind catching droplets, splaying into sky in joyful play. then down.…
Attempts at Humor…

Flippin’ Fun Over Fifty!

2 Aug 20164 Aug 2016
We usually visit family for vacation, either at Lake Keowee, South Carolina or to the Blue Ridge mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. This year, though, procrastination combined forces with many…
Reflections

Faulty Fault Lines–When Bad Things Happen to Little People

23 Apr 2016
RE-Posting an oldie but goodie, from 2013: Janie smiled through her tears and put her arms around Stella. “How do you do it, Stella? You always seem to find a…
Reflections

stick around

7 Apr 20167 Apr 2016
Reblogging an anti-suicide poem I wrote a while back. It used to be laid out better on the screen. Formatting, where did you go? Click through to the original for the…
Attempts at Humor…

How About Another?

25 Jan 2016
It's not like I don't have plenty to do. Actually, I live in Plenty to Do. I know everyone there. In the center of Plenty to Do lives a tiny…
DP challenge…

In the Now on New Year’s Eve

1 Jan 201620 Mar 2016
Now Time rolls by, steadily, reliably, hopefully not regrettably. Continue reading "In the Now on New Year’s Eve"
Attempts at Humor…

How to Write With a Whip

27 Oct 201520 Mar 2016
Ever get caught up in frustration that there's just not enough time to write? Between working full time, homemaking, investigating information we need to write, and a few other significant…
Global Issues…

Child Mental Health Day

7 May 201520 Mar 2016
Remember twirling around on the swing set out back? Tummy on the swing, arms and legs hanging down,  you'd walk in circles to wind the suspended chains around one another, like a rubber…
Blog Events…

April is National OT Month and Poetry Month

15 Apr 201522 Mar 2016
Note: some posts deserve a second life. Here's a repost from last April; what do you think, worthy? April: Not a month for fools! Pull a prank on the first,…
Reflections

Take Care of Your Heart

25 Feb 2015
All this talk about compassion and heart! Now it's time for a quick word about your physical heart.     February is American Heart Month! How can we reach out…
Global Issues…

Doctor’s Recommendation

24 Feb 2015
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
Freedom vs Fear…

Compassion: Left and Right

20 Feb 201522 Mar 2016
Marge lay exhausted at the end of a long day, her eyes puffy from too many tears. It has been an emotional day for her. As she lay on the…

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