by Shannon Anderson | Sep 3, 2012 | My View
Though it is early September, Labor Day in fact, I feel the wheel of the seasons turning. I’ve noticed the light is different. The sun no longer rises so early and isn’t coming through the same windows of our house as it did at Midsummer. When did that happen? I also...
by Shannon Anderson | Sep 1, 2012 | My View
Bruce and I took Travis back to school yesterday, and I’m feeling some anxiety about his living off campus in a house with six other boys this year. I should have asked more questions during this summer. I should have made Travis sit down with me and plan what he...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 29, 2012 | Writing
How many of us would choose some of the changes we have undergone in our lives? I know if I could choose my path I would not be unemployed right now, and neither would my husband. The past four years have been a long, sometimes hard four years, not knowing how we...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 24, 2012 | Writing
I’ve been sidetracked this summer, really for most of last year. I was teaching at a school where I wasn’t happy and was overworked, so much so that I developed a cyst on my vocal chords from talking for seven hours straight, five days a week. I resigned from that...
by Shannon Anderson | Aug 21, 2012 | My View
I used to be a brunette. I once had long, silky, nearly black hair. It was my best feature, but that was twenty years and two children ago. Back then I was proud of my hair, and I still enjoy how heavy and thick it is, but the color has faded. Okay, that is putting...
