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What does your anxiety look like?

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, September 10, 2022 • Leave a Comment

What does your anxiety look like? This morning, mine looks like a super muddled, very chaotic brain, the beginnings of a headache, and restlessness. So I got up, took some medicine, and made coffee. In an effort to try and settle my brain, I keep...

Oatmeal Recipe

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 31, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Up at 7:30 am, I figured I could dread today and what all it might bring or get busy making peace for myself. So I made some comfort food. It smelled so good while it was baking. If you need a good oatmeal, the recipe...

RIP to My Sanity

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

Here’s where the erosion of your sanity will get you… Our company’s vans died literally dead seemingly all at once (ummm, today), and we are now in a pickle. So I found two online, had them brought down from Murfreesboro, TN (which took some doing),...

Life. Smacks. Peace.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, August 9, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Y’all ever get up and the morning and go about your business just to be smacked in the face with a big, fat truth?! Yeah. And the funny thing about that truth is that it was there all along. It isn’t new. It isn’t a...

Go. Live. Life. You only get one.

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

Thought it was worth sharing that my quest to spend more time with my girl is going well! We had a great time together yesterday afternoon eating good food and exploring. The Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum was a blast, and we ate all the...

5 Reasons You Need To Take Time For Yourself NOW

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

Soul searching has its benefits. If you slow down long enough to just be with yourself, sift through your thoughts, and get reacquainted with the real you, you’ll make some progress toward clarity. I’m not talking about “self care” either – bubble baths, getting your...

Keepin’ it real.

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, June 28, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Nobody likes a Negative Nancy. I am aware that I may come across as Nancy lately. I have posted recently about my feeling lost, used up, tired. I’ve used the words “bitter” and “hermit”, yet truly, I’m not sorry. I want to keep it real....

See The World

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, June 23, 2022 • Leave a Comment

You don’t see the world as it is. You see it as you are. What?! I heard this yesterday. I had to write it down and read it 7 times. Is this real? Do we do this? Do I not see the world for what...

I Don’t Belong To Me

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, June 20, 2022 • Leave a Comment

Well, hmmm. I always feel awkward writing the first post after a hiatus. What a blogger I am, right? Life progresses at warp speed. I run from hell to breakfast, and go long periods without posting then…BOOM…here I am. Sorry about that. Believe me. My...

Walking Conundrum

In Stories & Reflections • by Amanda Herring, Writer, May 20, 2022 • 1 Comment

I’m a walking conundrum… I am hungry, but I am also fat. Don’t eat it, Sister. I am fat, but I also like cheese dip. Order a “small” cheese dip. I want pretty hair, but dang, I don’t want to wash it today. Lazy. I...