Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

Joan McMillan the writer

First: I will be updating this blog more frequently, I hope, and I have also joined with the modern era and opened a substack. I will be adding a link to this on my blog's page as well. I hope to update it as well as this. My substack may very well…

My creative nonfiction piece, Tidal Navigation, is on page 14 of the .pdf. If you navigate the actual magazine, it is on page 6.

Faithful readers, I believe I am seeing my dying process on the horizon--hopefully a far one, but today it seems very near. I have been diagnosed with three very serious heart conditions which coexist, all of which could be fatal without notice. One…

Faithful Readers, I have again been away--partially for the happy reason that I am on the second draft of my romantic comedy (more of a "dramady"). I am proud of this book, even if it never sees the light of day. by being published. The other reason…

Yesterday I revisited a video of a Saturday Night Live performance which I found bizarre and scandalous when it first came out: Sinead O'Connor's acapella performance of Bob Marley's "War," where she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II at the end,…

I decided to start working more on this blog, which has been something of a lifeline for me since 2005, when I started it. Right now, despite being vaxxed and with all my boosters as well, I am still isolating a great deal. I expect my life may be…

Dear Readers, it was a long summer for my family. My granddaughters, all three, are back in their various schools. Thistle is in eighth grade, something I find hard to believe. I am cleaning and putting old toys into storage, all the while reflecting…

Dear readers, this has been a difficult "just-over-a-year." My youngest daughter died on March 24, 2021: ironically the anniversary of a miscarriage I endured in 1985. Her death was related to opioids and alcoholism, and in great part to a person…

I haven't been posting much since a tragic and unexpected death happened in my immediate family last year. It never ceases to amaze me that it is possible to begin to live again after such an overwhelming event. In many ways, I will never be the…

CATAMARAN 23COURTESY THE ARTIST PHOTO DAVID REESEHOWARD KANEGThe Dream 200965 x 65 in 2009JOAN MCMILLANLong after love has veiled us both with salt we lie beneath your raveled blanket soft…

Some of my readers know that my family and I have experienced an enormous personal tragedy. It is too hard to write about it now. I can only say right now that the quote by Aeschylus (quoted in a time of national crisis by Bobby Kennedy) applies to…