Shannon Linton

I have secretly always wanted to dance. When I was five I told my mom I wanted to try figure skating. She suggested I try hockey instead. No shade to my mom, because hockey is still a massive passion of…

I am singing in a vocal group again after several years’ hiatus. God, I missed it. Plainville United scratches that itch really well, but we only have one or two shows per year and don’t meet regularly otherwise. This new…

My brain is a jumble, but I am happy. My kids have a thousand different needs and wants and plans and no understanding of how much work I have to do to manage those thousand needs, wants, and plans, but…

I woke up Monday morning and wrote “I feel overwhelmed” in my morning pages a half a dozen times. I had body buzz anxiety rippling through me and the weight of a long to-do list pressing down on my shoulders…

Can you feel it? The overnight switch to summer brain that happened this weekend? The shuffling of the calendar so that “clean out gardens” and “bonfire” hopped to the top of the priority list and anything business as usual dropped…

Make Like a Mother is out in the world! The first episode with Amy Henderson is live everywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as on YouTube and Substack. Go check it out, I’ll wait!

Despite my perimenopausal inability…