Category: Telling Your Story

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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Telling Your Story

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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Telling Your Story

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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Adding Character to Your Home

I Am Not Just an Email Address. Neither Are You.

Four years ago, I shut the door of my office at a regional magazine and became an email address. I still have bosses, so to speak. Women working in offices like the one I used to have, who work through lunch and slip their high heels off under their desk

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Sweet Finds & Smart Buys

Our Best Buys for a Kid-Friendly Home

From marker stains to sippy cup spills, our house stays on the sticky side. Here are some of our favorite buys for a kid-friendly house that stands up to stains but still soothes the grown-ups.  

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