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Holiday Card Remix

Amy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:08:13 +0000

Recently I did a rewrite of last year’s Holiday Card story for Babble. It was supposed to run this week in their holiday edition, but got the axe at the last minute. The “kill” money (which is a pretty sweet term to use when telling writers you’re not going to use their story-stab, stab!) should… [keep reading]

The Thumb Story

Amy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Okay, it seems I can’t just drop a sentence about a bloody thumb and not tell the tale, so here it is.

I was standing at the kitchen sink Wednesday morning, opening a can of cat food so I could give my cat his medicine because he’s fat and he tore his cat acl… [keep reading]

Two Skilled Adults

Amy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:00:14 +0000

The children got a playhouse from Steve’s side of the family for Christmas. It looked really nice when I saw it on the floor at Sam’s Club, so I was all, “Yeah, get that! It’ll be great!” I knew some assembly would be required, but in my mind Steve and I would build… [keep reading]

Amish Nightmare

Amy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:51:00 +0000

“I have a question to ask you,” my friend told me over the phone. She sounded a little nervous, and I wondered what in the world she could want. “Would you be interested in taking an Amish bread starter?” Really, that was it? A bread starter? That sounded pretty harmless. “It’s okay if you… [keep reading]

Holiday Card

Amy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Ah, the Holiday card picture. I doubt there’s a person under the age of forty who hasn’t been made to pose for one at some point in their lives. I’ve had to do so for thirty years now (my siblings and I hoped it would end when we started having our own kids, but it… [keep reading]

Thirty is the New Four

Amy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:54:00 +0000

Last week was Ella’s birthday. For months she’s been planning what her life will be like when she’s four. For example, when a thunderstorm drives her to our bed, she snuggles in and tells us not to worry, she won’t be afraid of thunder anymore when she’s four. She cried all night long on the… [keep reading]

Loving Each Others

Amy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:32:00 +0000

My brothers spent most of their adolescence trying to knock each other’s heads off. They were best friends.

For a while I was in on it, too. I had the distinct advantage of being a normal size adopted kid in a family of biologically short siblings. As such, I towered over my brothers and was… [keep reading]

Going to Agumano

Amy — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:08:00 +0000

This story is long overdue, but it was interrupted by Quandaries (making it indeed, the nature of Just Barely), and then by laundry, and then by dinner, and then by snotty noses…

I should have gone to check on them, but I needed to get their lunch ready and it was so… [keep reading]

Very Public Restroom

Amy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:57:00 +0000

Ella is very observant, and she feels the need to announce to everyone what everyone else, including herself, is doing. When she uses it to tell on herself or other people, this tendency is often times helpful, for example, “Mommy, I opened the front door all by myself!” or, “Mommy, Addison is eating shards of… [keep reading]

Intruders Beware

Amy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:18:00 +0000

Intruders Beware

As I pulled into the driveway, beaten down from our little Disaster and a Movie, I noticed the front door of my house was open. WIDE open. There was about a 99.99% chance that I had left it open in a frenzy to get out of the house before the children could… [keep reading]