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Tag Archives: Joan Schweighardt

BLOOMERS BLAZING: Paula Coomer: Story is Half of What Holds Our Bodies Together
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Paula Coomer: Story is Half of What Holds Our Bodies Together

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Joan Schweighardt

“My nursing education and career served me well, as I learned to understand humanity from the corpuscles outward. Also, writing is a physical act, and the story is an extension of the body, an actual part of the body’s ability to heal itself.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS BLAZING: Author Rocco Lo Bosco: Making Sense of Crazy
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Author Rocco Lo Bosco: Making Sense of Crazy

Posted on September 17, 2019 by joanschweighardt • Leave a comment

by Joan Schweighardt

“Certain horrors exceed our capacity to understand. Their concrete reality mocks theory, and language itself falters before such towering monstrosity.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS BLAZING: Starr Goode, Author of <em>Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power</em>
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Starr Goode, Author of Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power

Posted on June 11, 2019 by joanschweighardt • 2 Comments

by Joan Schweighardt

“May my work be a force to restore to women a history so much suppressed by patriarchal bias.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS BLAZING: Olin Dodson, On Fatherhood, Grief, Writing, and Dreams
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Olin Dodson, On Fatherhood, Grief, Writing, and Dreams

Posted on March 26, 2019 by joanschweighardt • 3 Comments

by Joan Schweighardt

“Grieving is not a process of the ego, which only wants stability and to be in charge.  Speaking generally, grief resists efforts to be rushed so that you can get back to work and become productive again.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS BLAZING:  The Jazz Singer: Marietta Benevento
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: The Jazz Singer: Marietta Benevento

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Bloom • 3 Comments

by Joan Schweighardt

“It hurt a lot to give up the musical career dream, but I never felt I would give up music itself. That would be impossible for me.” Continue reading →

BLOOMERS BLAZING:  Denise Allan Steele
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BLOOMERS BLAZING: Denise Allan Steele

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Joan Schweighardt

“There is always hope. As long as we are breathing, we have hope.” Continue reading →

Driven By Curiosity: Q & A with Joan Schweighardt
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Driven By Curiosity: Q & A with Joan Schweighardt

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Bloom • Leave a comment

by Ariadne Apostolou

“I am a writer who gets really passionate about certain subject matter, and then dives in and learns everything she can.” Continue reading →

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