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
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
by Joan Schweighardt
“May my work be a force to restore to women a history so much suppressed by patriarchal bias.” Continue reading
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
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
by Joan Schweighardt
“There is always hope. As long as we are breathing, we have hope.” Continue reading
by Joan Schweighardt
“I started [a book] some years ago called ‘Emma: An Unlived Life.’ I planned on leaving it as a suicide note. I guess it will never get read now.” Continue reading
Bloom 