Joanie Schirm

  • Walt Disney’s Birthday – Thanks Walt for Inspiring us to Dream

    Walt Disney’s Birthday – Thanks Walt for Inspiring us to Dream

    If there is one person I can think of who best represents making dreams come true, it is Walt Disney.  While I grew up in Florida, Walt was my inspiration for achieving big goals in life through dreaming and doing. As an adult, the most pride I’ve felt while receiving an award was when I…

  • Chinese Box Contents Soon to be Revealed in My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime

    Chinese Box Contents Soon to be Revealed in My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime

      Chinese Box Contents Soon to be Revealed in My Dear Boy: The Discovery of a Lifetime     Thirteen years ago, in the midst of the most difficult moment of my life after my parents, Oswald and Ruth Alice Holzer, died within two days of each other, I was bestowed an amazing gift.  I…

  • “The life, my dear friend, is the art of meeting people.”

    “The life, my dear friend, is the art of meeting people.”

      “The life, my dear friend, is the art of meeting people.”   A wonderful event just occurred. Czech words from seventy years ago were read aloud in my writing room. It happened because I read a fortuitous article in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reporting that the Rotary Club in our College Park neighborhood was…