by Shannon Turner | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog
If you’ve been following for a while, you may have already ascertained that 2016 was a year of giant upheaval for me personally. That was even before the election changed the sociopolitical landscape for our country, or at least revealed and made manifest things...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
I was flying down the backcountry roads in Southwest Virginia with my friend, Anne, on one of those brilliant, warm days in late August where there’s just the slightest hint of autumn whispering on the air. Before school shootings were monthly, sometimes weekly,...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 6, 2020 | authenticity, Blog, COVID-19, manifesting stories, pandemic, walks with grief
I’ve missed you. I have been struggling mightily with what to say to you during these strange times. In the first weeks, the (sur)reality of pandemic descended upon us. Our inboxes filled up with “how we’re dealing with COVID messages” from...
by Shannon Turner | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, GCDD Storytelling Project, Hidden Voices
Hard to believe the final episode of Hidden Voices dropped today. This was such a labor of love from start to finish. In our final show, we take a 360 review of the life journey of a person with a developmental disability. We look at the crucial signposts along the...
by Shannon Turner | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
Oh my. I just went back and re-listened to today’s episode of Hidden Voices, Employment First. When we were making that show, it was deep in the summer. I was really going through something. For several of these episodes, I tell a personal story in order to serve as a...
