Shannon Whitehead Smith
148 posts
Quarantine Diaries 03: Learning to Love Cooking
A few short years ago, cooking was the most frustrating practice that I put myself through, outside of fad diets and occasionally going on dates. Since college, I’ve loved baking cakes and other desserts from scratch. But cooking was a whole other beast to me, a necessary evil that...
I Read 45 Books in 2021—These Are My Top 10
I didn’t quite reach my reading goal of 50 books in 2021, but I read some amazing books nonetheless. And 2021 was the year I started to embrace audiobooks a little more—partly due to a Libro.fm membership that I forgot about for many months—and listened to...
Quarantine Diaries 02: Breaking My Own Heart
I’m not the type of person to choose a “word for the year.” Doing so never interested me, as I pegged that type of thing for emotionally intelligent people who enjoy creating vision boards at the end of the year and writing “30 goals before age 30” lists. But...