I'm a retired educator - English Teacher/Special Education Assistant/Speech and Language Therapy Assistant.

I love to write to entertain and inform you.

I owned, operated, and wrote for my own website - wwwthealzheimerspouse.com- a site for support and information for spouses of Alzheimer patients - for 14 years. In that time, I wrote over 800 blogs.

In 2020, I launched a new website - talktimewithjoan.com, where I wrote mostly whimsical blogs about everyday events.

Vocal.media writer since November 2021. I have received 7 TOP STORY HONORS and was a finalist in the Vocal+Fiction Challenge

Medium writer since February 2022

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I was personally invited to write for Illumination Curated by its Chief Editor, Dr. Mehmet Yildiz

Illumination Mirror/

Boomers, Bitches, and Babes/

PetPoints

Crow's Feet - My first article for this publication- Moving is NOT for OLD People - 5 Tips to Keep You Sane if You Must Move After the Age of 6 -was chosen for further distribution by their editors.