50/50. Those were the survival odds the doctor gave me and my mom. After three days of labor, seventy-two hours of agonizing pai...

I'm so glad the weekend is here! Lately I feel like I've been spinning in circles. My work schedule is busier than ever, my summer i...

Nervous energy may or may not be a good thing. I'm job hunting right now, after getting news that my boss at one of my jobs is getting r...

I wrote a novel last year. I poured months of work into my rough draft. I spent hours researching it, trying to get every detail just right...

Our Christmas tree stands in our living room, fully decorated. You can't miss it. I bought it on sale months before we moved from Arkans...

My hands shook as I fought the urge to turn and run away. What was I thinking? What had I done? I was too scared to move ahead, but the ...

Have you ever kept something a secret for a long time? You walked around every day, desperate to talk about it but terrified of what ever...

I was excited to be tagged for this fun writer's blog hop! Here is a sneak peak at my writing... 1. What am I writing or working on?...

February was an amazing month for me. My dream of being a published author came true when my first short story was published in Splickety Lo...

Saturday is pancake day. I make my coffee and pull out my Bible and journal, lingering over it all. I savor the peacefulness of a sl...

I wrote just a few days about my dreams of being a writer . It's been a scary journey, both writing and revealing my dreams of writing. ...

Hello, my name is Amanda, and I'm a writer. Photo credit: Tonya Salomons @ Stone To Heart Artwork by Kathi Denfeld @ Lo-ly-gag ...

  I'm close friends with fear - well, maybe "frienemies" is a better description. It's been a unwelcome part of my lif...

I'm branching out again today on my blog and linking up with Studio 30 Plus.  I usually link fiction (like Love: A Very Short Story ), b...

Life is all about changes.  Nothing stays the same for long.  But change is hard - even good change - and there's a part of us that want...

I've been linking up pretty often this year with Holley Gerth's blog, sharing my God-sized dreams.  Well, here is a tiny little pie...

It's been a while since I shared my first post linking up my God-sized dreams with Holly.  I wrote about being a dreamer  and how it sca...

There's a reason we call them "God-sized dreams."  They are dreams that are so much bigger than us - and for that reason, they...

I'm so excited!  Today marks the offical launch day for How They Blog , and I'm so happy to be part of the launch team. I knew ...

Last week I wrote one of "those" posts - the one that makes you feel a little bit dizzy and a whole lot terrified when you hit pub...