Author: Amanda

“Hush Baby, Mama’s Here” copes with a mother’s sorrow and loss. Please listen to this episode for the full poem. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

The journal entry “The Mother Body” explores the gift of the body and what it means to create and give life as a mother. Listen in for the full entry. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

The letter “Treasure Box of My Children” describes how I shore up the tiny moments with my sons, the things that paint motherhood in living color.  Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

The journal entry “Savoring Tuck-In” captures the little moments of motherhood that make the everyday extraordinary. Listen in for the full entry. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

This is the third in the series Pearls of Motherhood. This letter “To the Girl Who’s Not Yet Mine” is my way of coping with what will not be, of expressing the things I long for and cannot have. Listen in for the full letter. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

This is the second in the series Pearls of Motherhood. “Feet and Hands” reaches for the sands of time we cannot grasp and relishes the joy of living in the present with your loved ones. Tune in for the full poem. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

Motherhood lives in different spaces for each of us. The spaces we’re in change from day to day. I wrote “Motherhood” to grasp some of the ebb and flow of motherhood. Listen to the episode for the full poem. Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Anchor, or Amazon Music!

Is there someone in your history calling to you? Is there a quiet longing inside you to know what of your gifts, talents, and attributes are actually a family inheritance? Traits that are not just yours, but a common link between you and generations before and after? Explore this with me in “The Women in … Read More