Don’t Forget to Love Each Other

Deciding how to compose my thoughts for public consumption has been a challenge. Not because they’re jumbled or nonsensical, but because the sorrow I feel, the empathy I have, and the experiences in my life make them painful. I got a massage today. Now that life is reopening, I felt that my mental health needed…

New Beginnings

From November 8th: I was going to wait and post again after my house was “finished,” but life happens and sometimes you just can’t wait for things to be perfect. We’ve officially moved closer to my work into a trailer that is the right fit for us right now. There are some cosmetic fixes we…

Painting Projects

Over the years, as my creative tastes and outlets have changed, I’ve painted. As it turns out, this particular hobby comes in handy when I need to make a prop for the stage in my new capacity as Theatre teacher. I began with small things, like the occasional canvas, and then added in a flower-pot…

Amy’s Amorous Adventure

In 2013, I got divorced after a year of marriage to a man who ended up not being the one God had planned for me. I moved home with Mother and Daddy for a week or two, then a wonderful little rent house just kind of opened up for me. It was perfect, and I…

Birthdays and Baking

For the past two years at the beginning of July, my husband and I celebrate our daughter’s birthday. She’s 9, quickly going on 10. She is a product of his first marriage, but she’s as much my daughter now as he’s my husband. Since birthdays are fun times and supposed to be pretty awesome, we…