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:
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
one of my watercolors
I had a dear and sweet partner long ago who noticed I liked to draw and paint, and he once gave me a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Palace Arts to encourage me. In return, I painted a little pot of snapdragons blooming on his deck. Here it is (I will put a couple more of my paintings up in the next day or two):