About

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I am Shannon Honeybloom and I am an author and an actress and I wrote a book called Making a Family Home. It’s a Waldorf-inspired guide to nurturing the family through the domestic arts. I wrote Making a Family Home when my children were very little, and they still are quite young, but they are growing quickly of course.

I was born in Florida and because my mother was peripatetic, I spent a lot of my early childhood wandering the United States (Florida, Colorado, Michigan, and New York especially). When I got a little older, I continued to wander, farther afield this time. Semesters in Germany, France and South Africa, and summers in Canada, led to two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger.

After that I settled down for a decade in NYC, (MA from NYU in Literary Cultures, MS from Sunbridge College in Early Childhood Waldorf Education) and I got married and had two children (boys). Then we left the northeast and headed west, settling in the great city of Austin in the great state of Texas (and having one more child, this one a bonafide Texan, and a girl).

After six years there, we (itching for adventures after a period of long domesticity) sold our house and put our things in storage and took an airplane to Florence, Italy. We found a villa on a high hill-top (a mountain if you are from Texas) to call home.

We are surrounded by olive trees, lemon trees, apple and pear and fig trees. It is a certain kind of paradise.

I am working on a series of essays about life in Italy, pleasures here, the artisans of Tuscany. It is a perfect opportunity to saturate my senses in the wonders of the sweet life — chocolate and perfume and wine and such.

I’m also working on a novel for children. Something my own children might like to read. Sometimes I read it to them and they always love it, but it doesn’t satisfy me yet – a long process, writing. But my children are wonderful and patient listeners.

This is my personal blog and I explore all kinds of things — from homemaking to chocolate, to green living, to adventures (and struggles) in life.

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