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Meet Joan Gershman
Retired educator, speech therapist, English teacher, and writer
Dear Readers and Writers,
In this post, we introduce Joan Gershman, a retired educator, speech therapist, English teacher, and writer with many years of experience. Our goal is to introduce engaging stories of this experienced writer.
Joan is a new writer on Medium but she is not new to writing. She covers numerous topics in her stories.
For example, she writes long and short stories about love, inspiration, dogs, nature, customer service, how-to articles, fitness, health, mental health, and life as a widow.
Her mental health stories have a specific focus on Alzheimer’s disease. She has a website called The Alzheimers Spouse.
Joan has started writing in Providence Journal (Providence, Rhode Island) columnist. It was weekly high school news.
Then she worked as a developer and writer for her award-winning website, The Alzheimers Spouse.
This site is for support and information unique to spouses of Alzheimer’s patients. It was active during her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. She wrote over 800 blog posts on this site.
Joan also developed another website called Talk Time with Joan. On this site, she writes whimsical stories about her everyday life.
She also contributed to various sites and forums like DC Alzheimer’s Forum, NBC News, Newswire, and the Caregivers Voice.
Here are sample stories Joan posted to these sites.
Joan joined Vocal Media as a writer. Her stories gained significant visibility. She became a finalist in the fiction writing challenge.
Serendipitously, Joan found Medium in February 2022. She joined Illumination Integrated publications as a new writer. We loved her stories in Illumination, Illumination-Curated, and Illumination’s Mirror.
In this post, we selected some of her interesting stories to give the readers a quick taste. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Selected Stories of Joan Gershman
The Fog of Grief — Writing My Husband’s Eulogy
Every Girl Needs A Johnny Castle Once in Her Life — My Dirty Dancing Summer
Freshman Hickie Course 101
The Life Lessons I Learned From My Quadriplegic Cousin -Inspired by a Life of Tragedy and Triumph
Guilt is the Price Tag of My Success
The Life That Led Me to Bariatric Surgery — Part 1 -Too Fat to Fit
The Road to Bariatric Surgery — Full of Potholes
My Senior Online Dating Saga- Avoiding a Serial Killer
How an Idea of Buying a $500 Couch Snowballed into a $4000 Remodeling Adventure — A Widow’s…
The Treasure in the Attic — A Priceless Find
POSTHUMOUS TRIBUTE TO MY HUSBAND ON OUR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Thank you for reading stories of Joan Gershman and following her account.
You can contact Joan on Illumination’s Slack Workspace for collaboration.
Joan is also on Twitter. So, you can follow her tweets.
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