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 [...]
Anna had become fascinated with a little book called, “Go, Dog, Go.” It was silly, it was funny. It had lines like:
Stop, dogs, stop!
The light is red.
Go, dogs, go!
It’s green ahead.
She liked to read it a lot and her daddy had been reading it to her before bed nightly.
Now we were on our way [...]
A friend at church has been diagnosed with ALS and has been losing her health very rapidly. Since there is no cure for ALS, I can’t do the pretending I want to do that she is going to get better. I find myself remembering someone else who had Lou Gehrig’s Disease (as [...]
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.
