Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun Let's promote a healthy 2026! This newsletter will be dedicated to a discussion on vitamins. I am not a nutritionist, or a physician, but a patient who hopes that my experiences will help you decide what supplements may be right for you. For years, I did not include vitamins in my daily routine. When we were planning a family I took prenatal vitamins, and my children were given a multivitamin with fluoride until they were twelve...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun Does anyone else have a sense of humor like mine? My favorite movies are usually rated two stars, and comedies. They are movies that the critics hate, but I find them amusing. This past week I laughed out loud when I rewatched "Coneheads" with Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin. The film is from 1983 and features comedians from the "Saturday Night Live" cast. It is a story about an alien couple stranded on earth who must find a way to...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun "There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus I tend to become philosophical at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. I make my new year resolutions and allow the media to heighten my anxiety be recapping all of the year's tragedies, as they remind us of all the celebrities that have moved on to a place beyond. We are saddened by the finality of mortality and contemplate changes in our own lives during the...
28 days ago • 2 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2026! When I think about Christmas one word describes the holiday for me - tradition. The season is special because of it; going to church, visiting with friends and relatives, and in our household, we bake cookies. My daughter and I have fun using this recipe, compliments of my cousin. We call it the 'Christmas Tree Cookie Recipe' because the tree is the shape we most often use in the cookie...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Joannes Sunday perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun On the eve of April 24, 2025, our high school reunion committee met on a zoom call. Spring was in the air, and by 7 pm the daylight had turned to dusk. I brought my laptop to a quiet upstairs bedroom to block out the roaring sounds of the Thursday night truck race. The call was fun; we were happy to reconnect and enthusiastic about planning the event. In the distance my husband was yelling but I ignored him, assuming it was his...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun I would like to think what sets my fiction apart is the amount of truth in the pages of my novels. The photo below is of me, age 16, with Snowball, a character used in the prolog to 'Deceptive Images'. I vacationed that summer with my friend Roseann and her parents. I like to look back on that vacation. No, I did not meet the love of my life, but there was an innocent excitement in traveling without my family, riding horses for...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun An interesting question was posed to me this week. "Why do you write?" A simple answer is difficult to give. Writing is a fun escape where I can create and imagine. I can share knowledge that may help or entertain my readers. Writing a novel is a project I dreamed of completing. But the initial inspiration came from a historical romance novel I absolutely loved. The book is 'Deception' by Amanda Quick, and I read it for a second...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun Dancing With the Stars had the season finale last Tuesday. In February 2025, I had the opportunity to schedule a coaching session with Tony Dovolani, who was a professional on the show for many years. He is now affiliated with Fred Astaire Studios, where I started ballroom lessons at the beginning of this year. I wrote "Deceptive Images" in 2024, where a young dentist named Rosa enters into a relationship with a dance teacher and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Joanne's Sunday Perks Dental Tales of Love, Adventure, and Fun Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for the friends who read the newsletter, and I hope you enjoy what I have to share. I can remember a time when I stressed over Thanksgiving company, since it was always at my house. It became easier for me the year after my husband made fun of me for cooking the turkey upside down. Exasperated, I told him he should do the turkey. And the next year, he did. It became a tradition and...
2 months ago • 1 min read