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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Influenced by Tragedy

I am a fairly emotional person.

I am easily affected by outside influences.

I often internalize the pain that others are going through.

Other’s tragedies have, at times felt as if they were my own.

But, unlike those who own the tragedy, I do not have the constant reminders that they have.

I drive past […]

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Blogging, why?

My brother started a blog.

My cousins started blogs.

My best friend started a blog.

My husband started a blog.

My husband quit his blog.

I started a blog.

I quit my blog.

I started my blog again.

I started a cooking blog.

I started a photography blog.

I quit my cooking blog.

I quit […]

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Back2Blogging – Post #3

Today’s prompt for the SITS Girls Back2Blogging is Re-upload a post with a title that you are particularly proud of and explain why.

I am not completely in love with my titles. I have a few that I like, but none that I love. But, “Earthworms, Buggies and Snakes” is one […]

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Back2Blogging – Post #1

I decided to give another SITS girls challenge a try. I loved doing the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog with them and ProBlogger, even though I didn’t finish it. August was a busy month. Oh wait, so is September.

But I think this sounds like fun so I’m going to give it a […]

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Raising Best Friends

I have always dreamed of raising my two girls to be best friends. I never thought it would be something that needed to be considered or worked towards. But I guess it might actually take some effort.

My sister and I are three and a half years a part. There were […]

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