by Joan Durbin | Apr 17, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
I have not written on my blog for a couple of weeks now. Spring has sprung! The added responsibility of yard work has taken lots of my time. Plus I have been thinking and studying on ways to promote my book, Can You Understand Me? Actually, one of my dear friends and...
by Joan Durbin | Mar 31, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
I have loved to read books since I was a little girl. And now that I have self published my book, Can You Understand Me?, it seems even more natural to give books a place on my blog to celebrate them! I enjoy reading several types of books: autobiographies,...
by Joan Durbin | Mar 18, 2026 | Thoughts from My Day!
This journey in life has taught me many things. And one of the biggest things is that our bodies are one of our biggest assets we are gifted as a human being. Yet we are taught so little about our bodies. What a wonderful world we could help create if we helped our...
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...