Jo Ann’s Blog

Break your heart, Hawai’i. Breathtaking beauty and the next minute you’re watching a comatose woman Read More →

I Almost Divorced My Husband But I Went On Strike Instead by Sherri Mills is for women only and very smart men. This 40-year hairdresser picks right up where Betty Friedan leaves Read More →

In Jo Ann Lordahl’s latest novel, Princess Ruth, she skillfully and artistically describes the island of Kauai, its jungles, and beaches, and its culture. In following Read More →

and here are a couple of links to tell you more! This is my first review and publicity including Read More →

I’ve no connection with Ellie Phillips, DDS author of a most informative Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye. Other than blindly checking Kiss from the library, learning enough to immediately change my dental habits, and getting angry enough to write this Blog, consider me non-involved.

Anger comes from learning my (was) respected health store provider sold me a toothpaste - touting Xylitol (good for your teeth). But then first on the list of ingredients is Sorbitol (bad for your teeth and body). If you can’t trust your health-care people, who can you trust?

And why do I trust dentist/author Ellie Phillips when I’ve scarcely finished Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye? Because she tells her story as a dentist, woman and mother with detail and documentation. I believe her. And I’ve already started her program (it helps that I’ve recently broken a tooth). My pound of Xyla (xylitol) is recently bought - two teaspoons a day for maximum benefit. I put a daily amount in a small dish and dip my finger from time to time. And chew xylitol gum. But, as I was warned, work up to the two teaspoons slowly as there is a strong laxative effect.

Save Your Teeth: And Enjoy the Process gets my vote for a new title for Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye.

Just gave myself an awesome Read More →

I’ve been doing these exercises for years. Friends convinced me I should share.

See post Avoiding the Prescription Train.

Manifestation: How to Bring into Being what you wish has long been of interest. Healing. Better relationships. Money. Happier lives. I can do manifestation. I have done it. I just don’t know how I do it. My hit or miss method with manifestation works swimmingly at times. Other times, not so hot.

Three books add enormously to my conception of reality. And how to create spaces that better please and satisfy. These books required much effort from their authors. I am deeply grateful to each of them.

In the order they entered my life: Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight, Kenneth Smith (Ken Eagle Feather), Awakening the Energy Body: From Shamanism to Bioenergetics, and Deborah Denicola, The Future That Brought Her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken. Read More →

The feminine way of knowing is one of many direct routes into wholeness. With its emphasis on faith, intuition, and inner vision, it is now gaining respect over the dominating rational mind and patriarchal logos we have experienced and expanded for five millennia.  

By the time I got to this quote on page six of Deborah Denicola’s, The Future That Brought Her Here: A Memoir of a Call to Awaken, Ibis Press, 2009, I was firmly fascinated. What fun to find an entertaining, far-out-there book that nicely confirmed many of my own experiences—yet was teaching and showing more details of a future each of us are making. Read More →

We’ve come through. An election to be proud of, with real help in putting our country back on track. I am still glowing.

Growing up on a farm in Alabama – I never thought I’d live to see the day. The parallel with my writer’s life is clear to me.

I could never have dreamed, struggling so hard over the years to find publishers, that I’d ever have 19 books for sale on the Internet. Or even one. That little girl has traveled a long way in more ways than one. Doors closed in my face – editors deaf to how this book could help people. Now, with new technology, here they are, all in one place!

What a miracle that we can now build ever more ways to encourage and support each other. “Congratulations to us all,” as Gloria Steinem says, “Now we can get to work.” Let’s take this renewed hope, energy and vision – put them to work.

(From NEW PROSPECTIVES on MONEY MEDITATIONS for Women.) Read More →