by Shannon Turner | May 21, 2020 | Blog
The times we’re living through now will become the stories we tell each other for generations to come… Moving forward. There’ve been times lately when how to move forward felt like an inscrutable thing. There are a lot of people out there who believe they have...
by Shannon Turner | May 8, 2020 | Blog
In my work, I talk a lot about how the act of cultivating and telling our personal stories is a veritable hotlink to empathy. The more we dive into our stories, the more we understand who we are, where we’ve come from, and what connects us to the most universal...
by Shannon Turner | May 3, 2020 | Blog
On Saturday, April 11, I came home from a long walk in my neighborhood. (I didn’t used to walk my own neighborhood very much, but I do so often now in the days of the COVID shutdown.) Sitting down to rest, I opened up Facebook. There was a message on the East...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
It’s been unseasonably cool this week here in Atlanta. Or maybe I shouldn’t say unseasonably cool. Maybe it’s appropriately cool, and climate change has just altered our expectations. We’ve been waking to brilliant, bright, blustery days in the...
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,...
