by shaunnawest | Feb 17, 2022 | Writing, Creative Business/Coaching
Become a Writer I have been waiting my whole life to become a writer. Truly. From the time I was a little girl, writing stories about mermaids on golden lagoon shores, to filling up forty journals in my teenage years. I submitted poetry to magazines (Hey, Seventeen!),...
by shaunnawest | Feb 7, 2022 | Writing, Creative Business/Coaching
Hello everyone! I’m so happy to be back after my holiday break; I’ll share some things I have been working on soon, but in the meantime, here’s what I wrote about my time away from sharing online. Happy to be back with you…say hello in the...
by shaunnawest | Dec 15, 2021 | Writing, Interiors and Our Home
We had a year. Like, a one-thing-after-another kind of year. Health, emotional stress with the kids and things they’re dealing with, plans falling through, and all the normal day to day stuff. We also were lucky enough to have a trip early December with our...
by shaunnawest | Nov 16, 2021 | Writing, Creative Business/Coaching
The Beginning I started my blog on a whim on Christmas Day, 2009. I was surrounded by crumpled wrapping paper and piles of mess and the joy of it all just pulled at me. Write. I’ve written since I was a little girl, but never could have I imagined that this...
by shaunnawest | Nov 9, 2021 | Writing
I said this on the podcast a couple of weeks ago: To become we must do. I was talking about creative learning, taking risks, starting over. But of course, it’s more than that. We all have different seasons of “doing” in our becoming. Currently, this...
by shaunnawest | Nov 1, 2021 | Writing
A Life I Cannot Bear It’s this: one where I no longer see magic. One where I forget where I’ve come from. Where I don’t notice everything around me. I’ve said before that leaving our home in Troy welled a bit of panic inside me. I remembered...