I’ve been busy creating new JoJoisms to post on social media. Here are some of the ones I posted this past month: I’ll be back next month with more of my JoJoisms…as I think of ’em!
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I’ve been busy creating! Most of life has a funny side and I make a point of finding it. I especially love finding humor in the struggles. So here are a few of my latest humor memes. And here’s one I did for my Life Beyond Surviving blog:
Read the rest of this entry »Evolution of an Injury
As many of you know, I recently had my fifth surgery in a few years. It started because I walked on the treadmill. Yes, you read that right. I simply walked on the treadmill…and tore three tendons, damaged an already loose ligament-requiring a total of six surgical procedures. After more than four months of recovery, […]
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After my last surgery, my brain came home to roost. I’m able to do things now like remember my last name and why I walked into a room…more than I used to. It’s also afforded me the opportunity to write some new JoJoisms. Here’s one. Since so many of my readers are in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Chronic Illness Rules
Everything has rules. School, work, even science has rules. There are laws of physics at work on earth every day. There are also rules for those of us who have to deal with chronic illness. And as is the usual case, there are penalties for not following the rules. Unfortunately, the waters are muddied by cross […]
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Two weeks ago, I shared the dark place I was in after my year of faith that never (always) was and my husband’s job loss. This week I want to share how God has begun to deliver me from that dark place into His light. As is usually the case with God, it’s a series of small […]
Read the rest of this entry »I knew I was in trouble when I lost my sense of humor
I’ve always been a clown. I love making people laugh, especially myself. The more struggles life threw at me the more humorously I saw things. Until one day when I just couldn’t find anything funny to say. So I just didn’t post that day on Facebook…or the next day, or the next day, or the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Discovery: Spiritual Deficiency
As I was writing my blog post for this week sharing some tips for living with chronic illness, I came to this topic. After last week’s post where I confessed my struggle with depression, I felt this topic needed to be a post of its own. Here’s why. We can plan all we like, we can buy things to help us […]
Read the rest of this entry »My life is a series of comedy sketches
JoJoism#458 “If all the world’s a stage and the men and women in it merely players, I’m the comic relief!” I’ve been asked how I learned to write with such humor. I have to say that, as with most authors, my writing style is inspired by my life experience. JoJoism#459 “My life is a series […]
Read the rest of this entry »She gets her sense of humor from her mother
My daughter decided I needed some iPhone practice so she sent me a text. At first, I didn’t even know how to access it. Then I had some trouble touching the correct letters so all I could muster were short, one-word responses. She put part of the conversation on Facebook, but look how she introduced […]
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