The Joanal

My name is Joan A Brown and I’m a self-Representing artist living and working in Alberta, Canada. I have been a Self-Representing Artist selling my own art on eBay since early 2004 as well as representing African Artist Uchay Joel Chima’s work in North America. After many years of creating oil paintings and giving [...]

The road before me looks overwhelming as I make this life-changing decision. I am so pumped! Yet so scared. . .and that’s okay. I have met with bigger tasks and came through okay. I can do it again. Today was about gathering boxes and thinking about what I’m keeping and what I’m letting go. The [...]

Do any of you ever go walking very early in the morning? I didn’t know until today how wonderful that is. The peacefulness and freshness of the morning air is so rejuvinating! There’s a beautiful lake near where I live and even though I walk around that lake frequently it wasn’t until today I decided [...]

Several years ago I taught myself HTML, the language used by most web browsers. At first it was like greek to me. It took me a while to catch on to all that codes, scripting, etc. but now it’s so much fun to be able to whip up a page if I so choose. Here [...]

Well, so much for that battle! Looks like I lost the war. I woke up this morning and was so hungry for solid food that I decided to end this cleanse. Whatever willpower I had in the past to carry out this feat no longer exist. I want food! I love food! I will have [...]

Oh man! Doing this cleanse is so difficult this time around. I was starving! So much so that I cooked a pot of rice mixed with veggies. Wuffed about half of that down with the balance of the popcorn from last night. Oh my gosh! I can’t believe how hard this is. I don’t think [...]

Well, it looks as if my self-fullfilled prophecy became a reality after all. As I had imagined my night at the movies turned into a dive into a large bag of buttered popcorn. Umph! I’m so mad at myself. . .well, not really. I must admit, I enjoyed every morsel of what was once a [...]

Wow! Day 4. Today presented some of the most challenging temptations. Everywhere I went I saw food I wanted to have. Right now, my mouth is watering for buttered popcorn. I’m suppose to be going to movies tonight and all I can think about is buying a huge bag of popcorn when I get there. [...]

An uneventful day today. Urinating more often than usual such as getting up in middle of night and going more than once throughout the day. Not as many stomach pain as yesterday but the cravings are still noticable. Had a few errands today so that distracted me from most of the hunger pangs. Drank all [...]

I’m starting to see now, again, that this is not going to be easy. Suffering from cravings and withdrawals. I could eat a whole bucket of chicken right now. My stomach pangs hasn’t stopped. They come and go and are quite uncomfortable. I’ve had maybe four cups of the lemonade so far as I’ve only [...]