My name is Joan McMillan and this blog is, as Emily Dickinson says, "my letter to the world." I am currently working on a nonfiction book about the murder of a young woman, Asha Veil, born Joanna Dragunowicz, and her unborn daughter, Anina, on September 9, 2006. My book is meant to honor her life and illuminate the need to create a safer world for women and children.

To read an excerpt from the book, please click on the following link:
ashaveilbook.blogspot.com
An excerpt from The Pleasure Palace, my romantic comedy, can be found here:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Another Incentive to Stay Here
I also wanted to let my faithful readers know that I have, for almost two years ago, a very large incentive to stay alive and be well: I have a beautiful granddaughter, almost two now. She is the light of my life and so much fun to be around. I am trying to be a grandmother like my beloved grandmother Mary, who was always there for me and in fact lived on my family property for many years. I miss her and really understand now all the things she did for me. I want to live as many years as possible so that my granddaughter knows and remembers me. For her birthday: a child-sized piano, because she connects with music so much. And her name for me is "Am-Ma"--which Prada, my elder daughter (who just completed her yoga instructor training in Rishikesh, India) informs me means "saint." Well, I wouldn't call myself a saint by any means, but it's nice to hear such a positive word!
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