by Joan Durbin | Mar 2, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
So. It’s time. My book, the journal I kept while climbing a mountain with an illness called cancer, is launching today. Can You Understand Me? A Hospice Nurse’s Own Journey with Tongue Cancer, is ready to fly. And I honestly feel like this book has become...
by Joan Durbin | Feb 27, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
I rarely watch TV. You know I love to watch my Green Bay Packers play football and I do this as often as I can catch them on regular TV. But there is one other thing that can cause me to hit that remote button, ON. The Olympics! Winter or Summer I love to watch those...
by Joan Durbin | Feb 13, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
My mentor and my friend, Tuck Self, who in her own words describes herself as “a bold southern voice”, and has a passion for the subject of BG5-Human Design, advised me to write a Valentine to myself. So I did. I think I will now create myself a Valentine...
by Joan Durbin | Feb 3, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
As most of you are aware several states have been dealing with quite a bit of snow in the past two weeks. Our New England states, the Carolinas, Midwest and Ohio Valley states, and Southwest, including New Mexico who slid in with a whopping thirty-one inches of snow!...
by Joan Durbin | Jan 23, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
I know most of you have probably already seen these amazing monks on FaceBook walking their peace walk. I wanted to give them a shout out and thank them for their endurance and commitment to their “living meditation”, walking for peace, and compassion for...
by Joan Durbin | Jan 12, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
One of the biggest things my tongue cancer taught me was that I have a voice. It took me awhile to come to understand this. As I child I believed there was no need to speak up about what was important to me, or state my own needs, or to be a verbal advocate for...