Being Us

Ponies are the Answer for Kids With Needle Phobias

By Shannon Fisher June 29, 2014

I haven’t been updating partly because having a domain makes me feel like every entry needs to be A Thing About A Thing. I don’t have many Things to say.

Sometimes I just want to ramble on for the purpose of documenting my life in the presence of my fallible memory.

So here you have it:

I kept Emma out of school today because she had immunizations and her serious needle phobia had her tummy in knots all week. I thought if we did something together that was fun, I could abate some of the mind-torture she’d put herself through today. . . CONTINUE READING

Author Shannon Fisher

Shannon has been writing on the web since 1998 when you could make yourself a grilled cheese sandwich before your page loaded. Her work has been featured in print and online and she blogs at truthfully.ca. There, Shannon writes about vulnerability, courage and mental health. Before content strategy, Shannon spent nine years leading classrooms of small humans.