Jo Ann’s Blog

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 →

How often do you run into an acquaintance you haven’t seen for a couple of years at a Friday night wine tasting and they say, surprised, “You look ten, no, twenty years younger!” After only a half glass of wine? And you haven’t done a thing except eat better, get healthier as you watch your blood pressure go down, and feel terrific? Read More →

There are books that change your life and then there are books that really change your life.Because of Deep Nutrition, I’ve radically changed my diet. I can’t tell you how much better I feel: tons more energy and a minor stomach pot is disappearing fast. I’m calmer and getting restful sleep, which I’d about resigned myself to doing without for the rest of my life. Incidentally, my high blood pressure is decent for a change and those annoying, stubborn skin rashes are next in line for full attention. Knee and neck pain from long ago injuries are gone; my joints are looser and more flexible. As they say, I’m happy as a clam. Read More →

Lots of us in varying degrees of disenchantment with our usual medical system are trying different things to heal, to detoxify, to have more energy, to control this high blood pressure or that diabetes. Many of these things we try are quite far outside the box. Read More →

Happy New Year! – This is my Hello and catching-up Christmas Letter of 2008.

I’ve truly enjoyed this holiday season – lot’s of fun – two granddaughters and assorted friends here for Christmas dinner. Granddaughters Jessia and Leah hopped up and washed all the dishes. Amazing! Later I gallivanted out for a pleasant champagne New Year’s Eve. Read More →

What fun to try something new! Aging With Beauty isa project of mine with history. I had the idea—something along the lines of “how to grow older with joy and health, grace and dignity.” I love to write about where I am/will be in life, to learn what’s out there, how I feel, what works for me, what I observe working for others, to draw my best conclusions, and finally to share my findings in writing. It’s a win-win. One of my favorite things. Read More →

Welcome to Jo Ann’s Blog!

Writing books that actually help others and myself clearly continues to be my motivation for over thirty years now. It makes me feel I’m going my bit at solving the puzzles of our time - which only become more intriguing as I age. How to live a happy life, in its broadest sense as a woman of this time with these resources and challenges and desires is a conundrum… a question now segueing into - How to die having lived a fascinating, fulfilling, fill-in-the-blank life. Read More →

Or a better title - How to Write a Novel in Twenty Seven Years

I wrote this article for James Jones Literary Society Newsletter and while they keep telling me it will appear in the Newsletter, alas it doesn’t seem to! Although a member of the James Jones Literary Society for years, the Memphis Symposium was my first actual meeting. I loved staying at the Peabody Hotel, the ducks, walking all the way to famed Sun Studio. And of course the day long James Jones Symposium, sharing stories with people and talking with Kaylie Jones. Memories flowed. Read More →