The Courage to Live It

On Using AI in the Creative World

Or, Our Own Two Feet

Nov 24 • 

Shawn Smucker

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Is This Love Worth It?

One of us will be left behind

Nov 14 • 

Shawn Smucker

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50

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October 2025

On Kids Leaving Home, Sunrises, and Having Eyes That See

Maile and I look at each other after our two “Littles” have gotten on the bus and without saying anything we wonder how did we get to this place in…

Oct 31 • 

Shawn Smucker

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Why I Haven't Been Here So Much

Well, it’s been a minute.

Oct 23 • 

Shawn Smucker

40

2

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September 2025

On Escaping the Cumulative Effect of All These Maladies

I had a dream the other night that I had somehow escaped all of these minor, pesky, getting-older ailments, recovered a 25-year-old version of myself…

Sep 26 • 

Shawn Smucker

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5

August 2025

I Can See It Now

We sit and talk together for the third night in a row and there are two college students and two high school students and two elementary students and…

Aug 22 • 

Shawn Smucker

70

11

3

Now It Feels More Like Eternity

It’s one of those gray August days when you can just about believe in autumn again.

Aug 8 • 

Shawn Smucker

61

13

8

July 2025

June 2025

May 2025

I Can't Stop Making Up Stories

On a Novel I'm Sharing One Week at a Time and Why

May 23 • 

Shawn Smucker

31

4

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Being Grumpy and Grateful All At Once

And a new project you're welcome to follow along on, if you'd like...

May 16 • 

Shawn Smucker

49

12

5

Speaking of 50...

Speaking of 50, on Sunday evening we celebrated my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary by inviting a ton of their friends and family to meet up with us…

May 2 • 

Shawn Smucker

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