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“Thicc” and Thin

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, December 8, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Moms and Teenage Girls, what a time to be alive if you’re fat! If you got a little junk in the trunk, today’s culture calls it “thicc”. That skinny “Twiggy” who took the fashion world by storm in the late 60’s, with her boyishly thin...

We always have a choice.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, October 25, 2022 • Leave a Comment

We always have a choice. Always. We can choose to respond or not respond. We can choose action or complacency. We can choose courage over fear. We can choose gratitude instead of lamenting the things we don’t have. We can choose starting over or hanging...

You’re salty, too.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, October 16, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Gee, I didn’t know I had so many ladies going through the hormonal mess that I’m going through until I posted about being salty over the whole thing. Yep, you’re salty, too. Today is one of those days. Everything hurts. I could be tearful, but...

Salty About Menopause

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, October 14, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I’m salty. I am real damn salty about menopause. I don’t even like the word. I don’t like saying it. I don’t even want to talk about it. They need to come up with another word. The mere mention of it chaps my hide. Salty....

Emotions In Check = Less Pain

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 21, 2022 • Leave a Comment

I did something this week that I often have a hard time with…I kept my emotions in check. Yeah, it’s worthy of celebration, right?! Go, Me! Follow me on this…you KNOW something to be true, but it takes life happening, experiencing hardship, and un-learning and...

Feeling Joy

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 13, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Feeling shiny this morning, and I hope you are, too! It’s a beautiful day here at the barn watching Brady ride. I’m enjoying loving on this little orange kitty, too. (His name is Chip. His buddy running around here, the white kitty, is Queso. So...

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?...

Maine… and peace.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 7, 2022 • Leave a Comment

A few things occurred to me this morning, one of which was that I needed to tell you that our trip to Maine was as wonderful as expected and a much-needed chance to breathe (especially for Keith). For the first time in a long time,...

Valley of the Shadow Sometimes

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 30, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Y’all, I feel like I’m walking through that valley of the shadow. The good news is I know God is with me. The bad news is that my humanness sure pushes fear to the forefront and tries to crowd out my faith. I won’t let...

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...