Field Notes from the Threshold

On Winter: A Small Confession Wrapped in a Diatribe

… loving to hate this quiet, hunkered down season …

Dec 26, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

4

1

2

Writing Life: Uncovering What’s Working in My Creative Nonfiction

… in which my subconscious serves up a revelatory ‘aha’ …

Dec 18, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

3

Writing Life: The Good Weeks and The Bad Weeks

… in which I appear to be making everything harder, but only when I briefly forget the point …

Dec 14, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

2

2

It’s Just a Snow Day

… in which a snow day really isn’t the end of the world …

Dec 5, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

4

1

November 2025

On Becoming Eleven

… my stepdaughter sits on the cusp of what’s next …

Nov 26, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

2

2

1

How It’s (Really) Going

… my life looks so different these days, and I’m so grateful …

Nov 18, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

2

1

How to Have a DIY Writing Retreat

… because you know you secretly want to …

Nov 3, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

5

3

October 2025

A Birthday Song: Everything in Multiples of Eleven, Please

My son and I both turned a year older this week.

Oct 23, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

4

A Week of Chasing My Brain

… in which my brain departs and returns, and that’s just how it goes sometimes …

Oct 9, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

4

2

September 2025

It’s Just a Bath

… in which I cast some spells and accidentally become a bath person …

Sep 26, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

4

1

1

Writing in My Car and Flirting with Parody

… a post mostly about writing and process …

Sep 18, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

2

1

The Sound of Things Gently Clicking into Place

… in which I stretch past the threshold and toward something new …

Sep 12, 2025 • Shannon Brennen Ramdhan

6

4

3