Joan Weimer won the McGinness Award for nonfiction. Kirkus called her book Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak a “powerful, inspiring memoir." In a second memoir, Awestruck: A Skeptic’s Pilgrimage, she extends her expertise in healing to healing relationships. She edited Jewish Renewal in America: 22 Stories of Transformation, Spirit and Community.
describes a time of not writing but enjoying the garden of a rented London apartment. Her husband thinks she is avoiding her writing, but actually she is cultivating it. Sometimes writing is allowing the senses in without direction. In the … Continue reading →
Joan Weimer’s second memoir, Awestruck: A Skeptic’s Pilgrimage, just out this year, opens with a dramatic prologue: The plane is so near the ground I can make out individual palm trees, their fronds whipped into a frenzy by a tremendous … Continue reading →