
Building a Life Out of Words, Shawn Smucker & Following Your Dreams
In 2009, my writer-friend Shawn Smucker found himself in a tough situation. His construction-based small business was in debt and the bursting housing bubble was making recovery from financial distress less and less likely. Shawn and his wife, Maile, decided that they would move their family of six into Shawn’s parent’s basement and attempt to find a way to reset their lives. Shawn and Maile talked it through and decided that since they were in a re-setting mode, they might a