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My Friend Has Lost Her Mind to Dementia

But I feel closer to her than ever before.

7 min readFeb 3, 2024

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Sarah McLachlan Liked My Dayton Boots

Did it mean I was finally popular?

4 min readJan 24, 2024

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Travel Memoirs

A College Football Jock, an Artist and a Family of Wild Orangutans

The people, and animals, I met backpacking in Asia

6 min readJan 21, 2024

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Three travelers stand by a sign in a forest area, directing hikers to Bukit Lawang, Sumatra.

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Did Cancer Treatment Turn Me From Fearless to Fearful?

Or is it just middle-aged angst?

8 min readNov 7, 2023

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An Antigua chicken bus.

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I almost didn’t become a writer because of an embarrassing faux pas.

But eventually my biggest weakness became my greatest muse.

5 min readSep 15, 2023

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I almost didn’t become a writer because of an embarrassing faux pas.

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I’m 61 and Always Been Single

Alone doesn’t have to mean lonely. Just get a dog. Or three.

8 min readApr 2, 2024

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Gone almost two years now, I miss my Alfie's (a Great Pyrenees cross) copious, viscous, malleable…

1 min readSep 6, 2022

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Guilt and shame — two reasons why no one talks about canine behavioural euthanasia

The hardest decision I’ve ever had to make, but the only one I could

6 min readAug 8, 2022

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Two dogs walk along a dike.

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When I start freelancing next year, I'll never take a gig that pays by the word.

1 min readJul 29, 2022

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If society had to choose between everything that makes modern life possible (i.e.

1 min readFeb 17, 2022

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Joan Churchill

Joan Churchill

Quirky copywriter | Passionate storyteller | Dedicated furkid mom | Novice vegetable gardener | Enthusiastic home decorator | Former budget world traveller

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