by Shannon Turner | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog
Slowly, slowlymy days are movingtoward whatI want them to besoon, that tablewhich causes megriefbecause it reminds me of my fatherwill be goneI will arise at dawnand put on a pot of soupstretch my limbslike a plant unfurlingin the light of the window,surround...
by Shannon Turner | Jan 7, 2017 | Blog
I remember the words from earliest childhood. They were like a curse when uttered. “I want to run away from home!” Be careful what you wish for. As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve started to think about the phrase in a slightly different manner. If you believe in your...
by Shannon Turner | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog
Earlier this year, I posted this picture to Facebook from closing on my new home. It became one of the most ‘liked’ photos I’ve ever published. At the time, the image depicted the accomplishment of many years of yearning, overcoming fear that it...
by Shannon Turner | Sep 3, 2016 | Blog
Certain Saturdays in Kingsport, TN, we would wake up early, go down to the Krispy Kreme, and load up Mrs. Miller’s station wagon with boxes and boxes of glazed donuts. We’d take them, by the dozens, of course, throughout our neighborhoods, selling for...
by Shannon Turner | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog
This past weekend I returned to Blacksburg for the second time to continue developing partnerships around the storytelling residency I’m doing this year. Inspired partially by the approaching ten-year anniversary of the shootings, the work encompasses many...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog
Visiting my mom and grandmother in Tennessee this weekend, I make my way to the door to go for a walk, and my grandma says, be careful! Walking along through her pastoral neighborhood of little boxes made of ticky-tacky all in a row, I pull phone out of pocket to...
