by Shari Shattuck | Dec 7, 2024 | authors, creating character, depression, Life in General, writers, writing
The other day, I was walking into a store and two—we’ll call them scruffy—older gentleman were exiting, both of them seemed down on both luck and mood. One thing that tweaks at my heart is when people try not to meet your eyes, as though they are somehow ashamed...
by Shari | Feb 7, 2020 | children, divorce, family, Life in General
When’s the last time you took off for the airport after paying full price for a last minute plane ticket to nurse someone who fell and broke three ribs and then got accused of being a fraud for doing it? Anyone? Anyone? This just after spending two days at a...
by Shari | Dec 3, 2018 | America, beauty, cancer, children, depression, family, Life in General, Marriage, parenting
I hadn’t planned to go to Prescott Arizona, but when one of my husband’s few remaining relatives took a fall and relapsed from her brain surgery, I grabbed a carryon, threw in a few sweaters and headed for the airport. I didn’t want to go to the deep red state,...
by Shari | Sep 24, 2018 | Acting & Experiences, authors, beauty, children, creative inspiration, divorce, family, humor., Life in General, Marriage, writers
I was a tomboy, still am, kind of. Climbing trees, building forts, turning boxes into foil wrapped spaceships, pine cone fights with the neighborhood kids, (yes, it always ended in tears) these were all the activities of an average Saturday. But the best days...
by Shari | May 15, 2018 | America, authors, beauty, children, depression, divorce, family, Life in General
So I’m having a bad day, like you do. It’s not so much that bad things are happening to me as it is that anything that does happen is being processed through my filters as emotional torture. You know the kind of thing, someone is rude at the grocery store and you...
