Patience, writing & an 18 month old
This blog shares insights from a new first time mom about being a mother, a writer and everything in between.
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writerjns
- Feb 5
- 2 min
12 months of writing
12 months of writing is the intro blog for the next year of exploration for Jennifer N. Shannon aka writerjns.
writerjns
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
Transformation...
There are many words I can use to describe 2021—amazing, transitional, joyful, emotional, chaotic, beautiful—but the word that has been a...
writerjns
- Jan 3, 2021
- 1 min
2021 update with beachboyfresh
Happy New Year! Take a look at this live and in-person DreamLiving video that BeachBoyFresh and I created. It shares an update for 2021...
writerjns
- Dec 28, 2020
- 2 min
Surrendering...
On December 31, 2019, I posted below on my FaceBook Author Page: Almost 365 days later, I reflected on this post and how my life has...
writerjns
- Nov 6, 2020
- 1 min
What is your purpose?
It has been eight months of being unemployed, quarantined and living in a country with social unrest. Most people are mentally exhausted....
writerjns
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
What is there to celebrate?
We are nine months into 2020 and for me it has had moments of bliss and headaches. I'm sure some of you feel the same way. Below is a...
writerjns
- Jul 10, 2020
- 2 min
Self-portrait
These blogs that I've written over the past few months (this is number 14) are different from my blogs of years before. Now my approach...
writerjns
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
"Great" and "sucks" are almost the same, right?
Sometimes I can't believe that we are half way through 2020. I won't list all of the craziness that has happened to me but it's been a...
writerjns
- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
New Love: Covid 19 Edition
It can be hard to find a connection with another person; much less during a global pandemic. But here I am, getting to know someone and...
writerjns
- Jun 12, 2020
- 2 min
kale, spinach, mangoes, apples
Since Monday I've made four smoothies with raw ingredients, eaten more carrots than I have in the last three years, drank gallons of...
writerjns
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Safety is not real
Somehow, in almost six months, we've lost a legendary athlete, groundbreaking musicians, 100,000 Americans from—get this—a global...
writerjns
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
The truth about me...
In my tossing and turning this morning with my mind running a thousand miles per hour, I realized that I have been believing that I am...
writerjns
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
Last night
Like thousands of others, I was glued in front of my phone watching Jill Scott and Erykah Badu on Instagram as they shared, uplifted and...
writerjns
- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
The most freeing thing...
I've known for about month now that my company would need to make changes to the workforce due to COVID-19. And last week I got the...
writerjns
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
Damn, damn, damn, James...
This staying at home sh*t is wearing thin...It's April 17 and I cannot tell you the number of days I've been inside. Now don't get me...
writerjns
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
Self-quarantined but not really
In the age of online dating, social media, digital communication and collecting likes as a measure of status, it's easy to become...
writerjns
- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min
Dating in 2020...
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a first date. And although dating over the past 10 years or so has changed dramatically from when I was...
writerjns
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
1-year anniversary
On March 1, 2019, I moved to Baltimore and became a single woman all over again... I'm not gonna lie. When I relocated yet again my...
writerjns
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
Queen & Slim vs Valentine's day
I know Queen & Slim came out in late 2019 so this post feels a bit late but it's really not...As impressed as I was with the imagery and...
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