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Glad you're here! 💜 From Evolution to Survival: navigating the beauty and challenges of midlife all while fighting glioblastoma terminal brain cancer with grace and dignity.

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Just do.

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, February 24, 2024  •   Leave a Comment
I heard that, if you’re going through something, you should wait until you’ve gone through it completely to write about it. Give readers the whole scope of whatever you’ve suffered, accomplished, or figured out from beginning to end. Describe the trials, give the steps you...
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Vessel vs. Instrument

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 26, 2023  •   Leave a Comment
I often pray that I be used as a vessel.  I think of that as my words, my actions, my energy being guided for good, a kind of conduit for goodness, light, strength, empathy…all the things. I pray that my dance studio be used as...
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Bee Hive Update

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 12, 2022  •   Leave a Comment
You may or may not know that my husband and daughter have been raising and cultivating bees in our backyard. It was my husband’s dream to have bees, and it has been the best experience. We have all learned so much. Here’s the most recent...
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Out of the Mud At Last

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 12, 2022  •   Leave a Comment
Y’all ever stepped in that kind of mud that sucks your foot right up, and you lose your shoe? You can’t go on. What do you do with your sock foot? How do you get your shoe unstuck and back on without getting completely muddy?...
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The Spot

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 26, 2022  •   Leave a Comment
It was July 22, 2015, when we found out Keith had colon cancer. The doctor called us on the phone after a routine colonoscopy. We were standing outside in the yard when I put the phone on speaker so we could both hear what he...
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Not-So-Personal Church. It is well, though.

In Stories & Reflections  •  by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 7, 2022  •   Leave a Comment
Church kicked off yesterday with several super moving, extra heartfelt and encouraging songs. Hands raised. Voices loud. Then…with a wave of the choir director’s hand, a shift in musical key, and a flicker of the graphic displaying all the lyrics… “It is well with my...
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