JENNIFER N. SHANNON
author + photographer + curator

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...

Since Monday I've made four smoothies with raw ingredients, eaten more carrots than I have in the last three years, drank gallons of...

Somehow, in almost six months, we've lost a legendary athlete, groundbreaking musicians, 100,000 Americans from—get this—a global...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the age of online dating, social media, digital communication and collecting likes as a measure of status, it's easy to become...

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...

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...

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...

In 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity to do my first reading. I was invited to read for 15 minutes at a biannual event hosted by my...