The Thirteenth Moon, A Journey Into The Heart of Healing is the poignant, often humorous, and always inspiring true story of the most incredible and personal journey of Sandy Johnson's life... curing herself from Stage IV cancer. Yet this is not a typical cancer memoir or how-to health book. Written with the cinematic sweep of a riveting novel, it reveals a way to healing that can be accessed by anyone facing the battle of their life. This trajectory doesn't simply reject traditional medicine, but accepts and incorporates it into a larger whole, with a metaphysical component that takes the...

Sandy Johnson, who lives in Los Angeles, has travelled around the world seeking answers to our most pressing questions about spirit, health, and life.Travel with her through India, deep into secret, sacred Indian rituals, and into the heart of Brazil. Meet his holiness the Dali Lama (Tibetan Book of Elders), Oglala Lakota Medicine Man Pete Catches (The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians), and the amazing healer Joao de Deus (Mystics and Healers).

Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award

"Women of the Washington Press "argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the difficulties of combining two competing roles those of women and journalists. As a group they have not agreed among themselves on feminist goals, while declaring that they aspire to be seen as professional journalists, not as advocates of a particular ideology. Still, they...