Contemporary Fiction Author, Infrequent Blogger & Retired Clown

Author: Shannon

The Day I Caught Jason Isbell’s Guitar Pick (and other stories from Pilgrimage Festival)

The Day I Caught Jason Isbell’s Guitar Pick (and other stories from Pilgrimage Festival)

  Every time I go to a music festival, I leave the event thinking: DEAR GOD WHY DID I DO THIS PLEASE NEVER LET ME GO TO ONE OF THESE AGAIN! But then I have a couple margaritas with my childhood best friends and someone [Read more…]

5 Minutes in Montana

5 Minutes in Montana

Big Sky Country: Flathead Lake Do you know what I think about when someone mentions Montana? Legends of the Fall If you have somehow never seen this movie, I **implore** you to stop reading this blog post and go find it on a streaming service [Read more…]

Glacier National Park: The Crown Jewel of the Continent

Glacier National Park: The Crown Jewel of the Continent

Thick, white layers of fog pressed against the windows of my rental car as I ascended the narrow lanes of Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. Deemed a National Historic Landmark, National Historic Place, and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, the windy road traverses 50 [Read more…]

5 Minutes in Idaho

5 Minutes in Idaho

Let me give you a very quick and unsolicited piece of advice:  People from Idaho do not want to hear your f*****g potato jokes. I found this out the hard way, which is why I’m trying to pay it forward and let you know that [Read more…]