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“It Must Be Nice” & Other BS

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 8, 2021 • 1 Comment

So Keith and I had maybe a thousand dollars to our names (including what was in piggy banks and the couch cushions) when we started our service company in 2010. Keith gave up a steady job with paid insurance, and we had a little boy...

Opportunities, PTSD, and Vikings

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 24, 2021 • Leave a Comment

On or about this day 6 years ago, July 2015, Keith and I were standing in the front yard when the gastro doctor called. They found colon cancer in Keith after a routine colonoscopy, probably Stage 2, and it had to come out. It was...

Avacado Toast

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 23, 2021 • Leave a Comment

I like avocado ok, I guess. I like toast. But why is avocado toast a thing? You’re telling me a few “cool” people ordered avocado toast, and everybody else had to jump on that bandwagon? Besides the “cool” people, do you think the people who...

Let yourself go?

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 19, 2021 • Leave a Comment

What do y’all think it means if you’ve “let yourself go”? Are you eating ice cream straight from the carton, curled up on the couch in sweats, most weekends? Girl. Took a shower…maybe yesterday? Sister. Wear your husband’s old, holey softball tournament tshirt and faded...

10 Things To Unlearn Now

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, July 9, 2021 • 1 Comment

Y’all, I have had to unlearn some things. I picked all this up along the way as the gospel, the truth, the way it is, what’s right. I thought it was, and if I had not been open to new concepts or applied my own...

Gershwin & Peace

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, June 26, 2021 • Leave a Comment

He spruced up the kitchen, so it would be ready for me and made my coffee. Now George Gershwin plays. Sausage is sizzling, and it smells so good. Homemade biscuits are in the works. It’s peaceful and glorious. “Somewhere In Time” (Performed on the Piano...