Joanne Tombrakos

I’d Forgotten

I’d forgotten that today was September 11. When I first woke up and heard the wind blowing , the rain beating against my window, I turned over and went back to sleep. It was Friday. There was nothing on my schedule but writing plus I had a late night. So I decided to take advantage […]

My Back To School Message

I am troubled today. Not just by the uproar over whether the President of the United States should be allowed to address the future of this country as they start a new school year. As if in this day and age with 24/7 news, Twitter and Facebook any parent can completely control what their kids […]

Taking Note: Lisa Genova

While I am still more in a vacation mode than a blogging one, I just finished reading Still Alice by Lisa Genova and am compelled to write. I learned about this book because of the circuitous way in which it was published and achieved acclaim. Lisa Genova had written this moving story about a fifty […]

Staycation’s All I Ever Wanted

So I am still in vacation mode and am planning on staying like that until after the Labor Day weekend. Which is why my posts have been limited recently. Mine is a hybrid staycation, with my travels taking me only so far as the East End of Long Island. With that in mind, it was […]

What’s A Blogger To Do When They Don’t Have A Blog To Post ?

This is the thing with having a blog. It takes care and feeding. You have to be consistent or your readers wonder where you have gone or, worse yet, just forget about you. But sometimes you just can’t think of anything you really want to blog about. That’s where I’ve been. A blogger without a […]

Contact Lessons

I recently got my first pair of contact lenses. My distance vision is still fine, but without my reading glasses, this computer screen I am writing on becomes nothing more than a blurred vision of gibberish. I never thought contact lenses would be for me. I am generally a squeamish sort who could barely get […]