Shannon Hood

Jun 10, 2024 | apfmag.com | Shannon Hood

In an Australian-first, The Emergency Services Foundation (ESF)has begun to pilot a Residential Wellbeing Program for emergency service volunteers and paid staff, with six programs scheduled in 2024. The program involves six groups of eight people in residence for four days on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Mar 11, 2024 | shannonhood.substack.com | Shannon Hood

Fourteen years ago, a mother was born. While the world slept, I labored, listening to the sound of the midwife in the kitchen drinking tea, the clinking of spoons on teacups reaching my ears through the dimness. How can she be calmly relaxing while I’m in here suffering? I thought miserably. But then another thought came, It’s because everything is okay. This is the most everyday occurrence in the world: a baby is about to be born. Recently, at Costco, I saw a grandmother with her grandchildren.

Jan 18, 2024 | shannonhood.substack.com | James Baldwin |Robert Stevenson |Shannon Hood

Reading Girls, Nikolay Bogdanov-BelskyIf you would have told my 29-year-old self a decade ago that I was going to read 50 books in a year, I probably would have cried. At the time I had a 3-year-old, a 1-year-old, and a 2-month-old baby, and I’m not sure I read any books at all that year. To every thing there is a season, and I am entering a wonderful season bursting with reading of every kind. So if you’re feeling discouraged with where your reading life is currently, don’t dismay.