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Shannon standing in lava field

I'm so happy you're here!

Thanks so much for taking an interest in me and my story.

Image Credit

Photographer: Lauren Lane Location: Iceland

Some seasons end beautifully. 🥹🍷 Some seasons end beautifully. 🥹🍷
Thirty-two years ago today, I was 21 years old and Thirty-two years ago today, I was 21 years old and walked into the fire department to begin a job I could never have imagined would shape so much of my life.

I had recently left music school and trying to decide what to do with my life. I was getting married in two months after this photo was taken. I wasn’t a mother yet. I had no idea where life would take me, what I would survive, who I would love, who I would lose, or how many different versions of myself I would become.

I look at this young woman now and want to tell her so many things.

I’d tell her that life isn’t going to look anything like the picture she has in her head.

I’d tell her some of the people she thinks will always be there won’t be. Others she hasn’t even met yet will become part of the fabric of her life.

I’d tell her she will become a mother. A grandmother. A wife more than once. A writer. A traveler. A woman who will start over more times than she can imagine.

I’d tell her that the fire department she walked into that day thinking it was simply a job would become part of her identity and would teach her difficult life lessons. That she would spend years answering calls on people’s worst days, live through disasters she couldn’t yet comprehend, and discover that she was capable of far more than she knew.

And I’d probably tell her not to spend quite so much time worrying about whether she was doing life “right.”

Because there isn’t one right way.

This photograph has its own scars. It was pulled from the floodwaters after the 2016 flood in Baton Rouge. Somehow, it survived.

So did she.

Thirty-two years later, I don’t wish I could go back and change everything for her.

I think I’d just sit beside her for a minute and say:

Hold on, sweetheart.

You have absolutely no idea where this life is going to take you.

And what a life it is going to be.

(📸 D. Weimer: 📍BRFD Station 11)
It’s my last day here for a bit. Taking a break fo It’s my last day here for a bit. Taking a break for a refreshing sip on the deck. #Maine 

The Beehive Blush 🍐🍊🌸

1½ oz Absolut Pear Vodka
½ oz St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
¼–½ oz Chambord
½ oz Key Lime Juice
Mandarin Orange Club Soda
Optional splash of cranberry juice
Ice

Serve in your favorite #cocktail glass
“The future belongs to those who believe in the be “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s been a little weird around here lately… It’s been a little weird around here lately…
Lots of opportunities to think about at the moment Lots of opportunities to think about at the moment….
Weekend Recap: Maine Edition Wine 🍷 Lobsters 🦞 Weekend Recap: Maine Edition

Wine 🍷 
Lobsters 🦞 
Firepits 🔥 

Enjoyed the Labor Day weekend with family, friends, and local wildlife. Hosting a lobster dinner with an evening fire pit by the water is quintessential Maine living. Blessed to have a spot on this quiet, undiscovered peninsula in MidCoast. #IYKYK
Some bottles of wine come with tasting notes. Othe Some bottles of wine come with tasting notes. Others come with stories. 🍷

A few years ago, James and I were leaving Venice for Naples when a train derailment completely changed our plans. A taxi, a rental car, and several hours later, we found ourselves unexpectedly driving through Tuscany.

Somewhere near Montepulciano, hunger (and curiosity) sent us down a few questionable back roads to a winery I found on the map.

And then there it was: @avignonesiofficial 

We spent the afternoon in the Tuscan sunshine, tasting wine, sharing charcuterie, and laughing about how sometimes the best travel memories are the ones you never planned.

We shipped a case home to Maine, where the bottles have been resting in our cellar ever since.

This week, we decided it was time to stop saving them for “someday.”

We opened the 50 & 50, slightly chilled and decanted, and paired it with grilled tenderloin, fresh corn and asparagus. And over dinner, we traveled right back to that unexpected afternoon in Tuscany.

The wine was beautiful. Dinner was pretty darn good, too. 😉 And the company was the best part.

Maybe we spend too much of life saving the good things for a special occasion.

Open the bottle.
Make the dinner.
Tell the story.

Tuesday is special enough. 🍷🇮🇹
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