Meet Amy

I have struggled with the answer when asked, "What do you do?" and it isn't work-related. Ultimately, we settled on that I find things and untangle things. But I also read (a lot), pretend to wake surf, and watch Hallmark films.

Amy's bookshelf: 2024

The Weekend Away
it was amazing
So so good! Orla and Kate are long-time best friends off on a girls' weekend away. Kate is a bit of a player who is trying to get back at her soon-to-be-ex, causing her to spend frivolously and do drugs and hook-ups. Orla is a new mom ex...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, five-stars, thriller, and thoughtful
Written Off
really liked it
tagged: 2024, cozy, easy, and four-stars
Maybe Next Time
really liked it
Parts were a screaming 5 and parts were like “what?” And just irritated me. It is a Groundhog Day premise about a family of four - the mom is caught up in her own life and missing all that is going on around her with her kids and then he...
tagged: 2024, audible-books, fiction, four-stars, and thoughtful

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My CBC Recap and who I am...

Although I have been blogging for 3 years over at Singing and Spinning, I have only been doing this site since the first part of March. I don’t get thousands of hits a day or even a week. But I love blogging. It is important to me to share how I am trying to balance […]

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English doesn't always translate well

I’m returning this week to Mama Kat’s workshop and writing about the following prompt…

1.) Describe a time when you had difficulty communicating with someone who speaks a different language than you.

Oh there was that time, when I was walking down the road in Kiev. This man kept following me and […]

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My week on the road...

I used to travel twice a month. It was really hard on my family. It sucked for me. But I was gold medallion and always got upgraded. I was gold at Marriott and had saved up a lot of points. Points that I still haven’t used.

Now, I travel as rarely as possible. Unfortunately, this […]

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Shoes? Who likes shoes?

It was a beautiful morning in the middle of July. The night before I had planted some new lilies. To my surprise, some of them had already started blooming. I was so excited to check them out.

Barefoot and in my pajamas, I picked up my oldest and ran outside to see their progress.

I […]

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Today is the Day - Wordful Wednesday

I feel extremely lucky.

And very blessed.

I don’t say it often enough.

Nor do I show it as much as I could.

Maybe it is time that I do.

Today is the day that I get to celebrate being married to the man of my dreams.

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