by shaunnawest | Aug 2, 2019 | Writing
I sit quietly in my living room, a room I wouldn’t sit in for almost a year before my marriage ended. It was like the silence of what was happening under the surface of me was too piercing in here, too deafening. Too revealed. I retreated to spending time in...
by shaunnawest | Jul 11, 2019 | Writing
There is just something about a studio. A clean, white space. Everything is fresh. Everything is new. Blank. This is the place where new things are born. I walked into Marian’s studio this week, and some of the moments within the space stopped me in my tracks. ...
by shaunnawest | Jan 30, 2017 | Writing
You know, there are just times when the stars align, and for just one brief moment, things actually make sense. This weekend was such a time. I went to Memphis (more on this soon), and shared about creativity and business and we painted and laughed. I met some...
by shaunnawest | Jun 9, 2016 | Interiors and Our Home
We’ve not really updated much at the beach condo the last two summer seasons. We tackled the biggest of the projects like our bedrooms, getting paint colors changed, and we updated mine/my brother’s/Sara’s bathroom. Things were pretty dated here, and...
by shaunnawest | Apr 4, 2016 | Archive
My baby brother is engaged. The week before he left on his trip to Patagonia with his future bride, Sara, he called me. Talking ninety to nothing and giggling like a school girl, he told me about the ring and the plan and fretted about how in the world he was going to...
