My husband and I have been having a lively discussion about Harriet the Spy. (see last post) Since my last post, I have read this childhood favorite of mine for the first time since I was in 5th grade. I enjoyed it very much, but now I could see the negative side [...]
Lately I have been filling pages and pages of my journal whenever I get the chance. Over the years the pace of my writing has ebbed and flowed, but I have been journaling ever since as a 5th grader I read Harriet the Spy. This book is one my husband also read as a [...]
I love using visual imagery in my thoughts. It has been part of the way I naturally think for as long as I can remember. I used to not realize that many people don’t even think this way. My husband, for example, finds it an effort. He can glean some benefit [...]
Date: Thursday, February, 24, 2000
Place: Written at the apartment I shared with my mom and brother at Annie Lane
Background (the me I was then):
It had been 2 and a half years since Jacob and I had broken up (and that breakup had been painful). The breakup had occurred just as I was starting my [...]
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Place: Kitchen table of the apartment I shared my mom and brother at Annie Lane
Background (the me I was then): Sick with a cold that week. Single, working a job I really liked on the whole, but that wasn’t something I wanted to do forever and that also had aspects I [...]
As we’ve gone through a draining and difficult trial that has stretched into more than 4 months now, I’ve found myself looking back into my memories of other difficult times when God has sustained and strengthened me in my life. Some of the trials I think back on seemed terrible at the time, yet [...]
On that day I was an opthalmic technician working for Park and Siebold Eyecare. Out of all the roles I have had in my life— from sister and mother and daughter and wife and friend, to student and cashier and library assistant and camera sales clerk and Home Health Aid and A Beka Homeschool Grader/”Teacher”—forever [...]
Having written on the topic of writing for pleasure and healing recently (and commenting here), I decided to post one of my favorites of all the things I have ever written. I like this piece because it combines precious memory and healing all in one. My life made more sense to me after I [...]
I am Shannon, a 31 year old Christian, mother of one and wife to my best friend and highschool sweetheart. This blog is a place to share with others my ongoing homekeeping education, interests, favorite ideas, and inspirations.
