Category: Telling Your Story

10 Best Ways to Let Yourself Go After You Turn 30
Suds & Soul: Things I Think of While Washing Dishes

The 10 Best Ways to Let Yourself Go After You Turn 30

I’ve absolutely let myself go since I turned 30. Here’s how you can, too:   Let yourself go and make female friends. 10 years ago, I would have said that I’m incapable of making female friends. I would have told you that I had more in common with guys. I

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Telling Your Story

Amanda Answers Your Questions

I invited readers to email me questions about anything and everything. Here’s a few of the most frequently asked questions with my answers. If you have others you’d like me to answer, send them my way! Q: What exactly is your job? A: I get it. People don’t understand what

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If These Walls Could Talk: 8/21/15

Every morning at 9 AM, a girl walks by our house. I say girl but she is probably more appropriately described as a woman. I guess I say girl because I still feel like a girl. I still feel 15. Maybe 5? Anyway, I imagine this girl-woman is laid back

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If These Walls Could Talk: 8/14/2015

To tell you the truth, I stumbled into blogging. I was a magazine writer and a weekend do-it-yourselfer and a negative pregnancy test hider. Around the time we started seeing an infertility specialist, Travis suggested I combine my love of writing with my love of tinkering. So instead of having

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Telling Your Story

If These Walls Could Talk

It’s Friday and if your week was anything like mine, you need a good cup of coffee (maybe a glass of wine) and a reminder that life, though messy, is pretty great. This week at our house, my cell phone broke, the TV is still fried after last’s week’s storm

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