by Shauna | Oct 9, 2019 | Celebrating in Style, The Creative Life
Throughout October, I’m featuring some of the best D’arc Family haunts that have infiltrated my house on Halloween in years past. At the bottom of the post, I’ll give another clue to our theme this year! Since I live in the Western U.S., I thought I’d show off two of...
by Shauna | Oct 2, 2019 | Celebrating in Style, The Creative Life
Next to Christmas, Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, not because I like horror or gory guck or anything like that. But because it gave me the excuse – even after I was a grown-up – to play pretend. As a teen, my mom helped me put together my first haunted...
by Shauna | Mar 14, 2017 | Deep Thoughts, The Creative Life
One of my favorite things about being an author is interacting with fans who enjoy reading my books and answering their questions about writing. I had a young man contact me the other day. He’s writing a report in school about a Utah author, and he chose me as...
by Shauna | Oct 10, 2016 | The Creative Life
People often ask authors where they get their ideas, as if writers are miners braving the deepest darkest pits to bring back precious nuggets of gold. Well, ideas are not so very hard to find, especially if you keep your eyes and ears open to the world around you....
by Shauna | Jun 29, 2016 | Deep Thoughts, The Creative Life
Some friends of mine put together a video featuring their children, with the youngest musing on being little. It was a heart-warming piece with some profound ideas. One that really struck me was the idea that as we grow up, and cross to the other side of the “river”...
by Shauna | Jun 8, 2016 | The Creative Life
I recently read an article about how reading logs are killing the joy of recreational reading for children. This is something I’ve long believed in, because I’ve seen it happen to my own kids. When I was young, I spent much of the summer lying on my bed with my nose...
