by Joanna | Jan 1, 2019 | Modern Times, Relationships
The people who want to claim that a man can never understand a woman are full of crap. “Men are simple creatures and women are just too confusing.” This sentiment is everywhere, it seems. In entertainment, advice columns, marriage books. This is more than just a...
by Joanna | Jul 8, 2017 | Modern Times
Life Help For Millennials: An Advisory Poem Hey you, yes you young’n You millennial I’ve got some advice For your wretched young soul I’m older and wiser And better than you That’s right, I’ve a word To give you a clue You must travel the world Take...
by Joanna | Jan 27, 2017 | Modern Times
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day of liberation for Auschwitz. A week or so ago I had come across a website that had taken several publicly shared photos from around the web of people jumping, laughing, or crassly posing at the Holocaust...
by Joanna | Oct 11, 2016 | Modern Times
I don’t really know how to start this, or what do say, or how to express myself on this subject. But I do have many thoughts, so I’ll just jump in and do my best to coherently express them here. If we are going to claim righteous morality as the cause behind our every...
by Joanna | Aug 23, 2016 | Encouragement, Friendship, Life, Modern Times
Making friends as an adult is no joke. Of all the things I took for granted as a child and didn’t appreciate, the ability to easily make friends and plans is one of the ones I miss the most as an adult. Acquaintances are easy, people you see in passing, at work, at...
by Joanna | Jul 12, 2016 | Encouragement, Inspiration, Life, Modern Times, Sadness
Sam: It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so...