by Shannon Anderson | Jun 27, 2016 | My View
The past seven and a half years have been both the longest and the shortest years I can remember. My husband lost his job in early February of 2009. Our lives have changed drastically over the years since then, but we had no idea the lessons we would learn over those...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 20, 2016 | Writing
“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There My life this week has been...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 13, 2016 | Writing
Last Tuesday was my writer birthday. It was the first day of investing in myself in pursuit of a full-time writing life! Mind you, I’m still in the throes of post school year fatigue and would like to do little other than sleep, but my “sea...
by Shannon Anderson | Jun 6, 2016 | Writing
Coco Chanel said, ” A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” Well, I have a new ‘do, and, I’m about to take a leap of faith. I am leaving my teaching career to pursue writing full time. I’m scared to death I’m doing...