https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/Essays on history, teaching, travel, and bourbon by Shauna Hann.en-ushttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-slow-pour/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-slow-pour/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000A good pour on the table, four people around it, and about nine seconds of confident talking. Caramel. Vanilla. Oak. Then the little silence where everybody runs out of words.…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/finding-my-people/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/finding-my-people/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000The clink of a dozen glasses finding each other over a table, and the low, warm noise of women who are glad to be there. That is the sound I…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/past-the-burn/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/past-the-burn/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000The first sip almost always makes them wince. A little heat, a little burn, eyes watering, and then the look I know so well: I don't get it. What am…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-gray-line/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-gray-line/Wed, 27 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000Gray stone, gray coats, gray river light coming up over the Hudson before the bugle even sounds. That is a West Point morning, and I taught a lot of them.…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/worth-keeping/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/worth-keeping/Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000Cold stone under my palm, and the river light coming silver off the Hudson. That's where I want to start — not with a plaque or a date, but with…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-dissertation-that-waits/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-dissertation-that-waits/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000There is a box in my house I do not open very often. Folders, notebooks, a stack of index cards gone soft at the corners. Years of reading, all of…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/ten-paces/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/ten-paces/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000Wet grass at first light. Two men counting their steps away from each other, backs straight, pistols pointed down. Ten paces, and then they turn. I used to stand in…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/bastogne/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/bastogne/Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000Snow so cold it squeaks underfoot. Fog thick enough to hide an army. And out of that fog, on a gray December morning in 1944, an army came. I sat…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/man-made/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/man-made/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000The little cough of a microphone. A conference room full and waiting, a hundred faces tilted up. And me, a woman, about to stand and talk about what it takes…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-smart-book-that-got-me-invited-back/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-smart-book-that-got-me-invited-back/Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000A whole peninsula to reach. A mission nobody quite understood. And a stack of briefing slides that glazed eyes over before slide three. That was Korea. I was a support…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/a-kentucky-hug-and-how-to-actually-taste-bourbon/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/a-kentucky-hug-and-how-to-actually-taste-bourbon/Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000Warm oak. A little smoke. Something sweet underneath, like a barn on a hot afternoon. Most people taste bourbon wrong, and it isn't their fault — nobody ever taught them…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/what-the-inca-trail-taught-me-about-pace/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/what-the-inca-trail-taught-me-about-pace/Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000Thin air. Wet stone. The kind of quiet that has weight. Four days on the Inca Trail, and my lungs never quite caught up — but something else did. I…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/leaders-dont-need-more-information/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/leaders-dont-need-more-information/Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000A binder thick enough to stop a door. A briefing that ran an hour long. A room of capable people, quietly checking out. I built leadership courses for the Army,…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/meeting-people-where-they-are/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/meeting-people-where-they-are/Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000A back row. A nervous glance at the door. Someone certain they don't belong in the room. I coached spin for more than ten years, and Pilates for three, and…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-joy-is-watching-you-get-it/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/the-joy-is-watching-you-get-it/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000The moment someone's face changes. The pause, then it lands, then the little lean forward. I live for that. People come to me for a lot of different things —…Shauna Hannhttps://shaunaonthego.com/writing/nothing-sticks-until-it-matters/https://shaunaonthego.com/writing/nothing-sticks-until-it-matters/Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000A blank stare. A polite nod. The quiet little click of a brain deciding this will not be on the test of real life. I've watched it happen in every…Shauna Hann