Inspiration: Anne of Green Gables
A few weeks ago I was asked to write an essay, and the only requirement was that it should be inspirational. At first I wasn’t too worried: People had told me they found my essays inspirational in the...
View ArticleLiving Free From Regret
I often pretend that I’m eighty years old. When I was eighteen, I went away to college and began studying music. My life wasn’t ideal: my mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer that year, I had wicked...
View ArticleWriters are Super Heroes
I have a writer friend who is having a bit of a tough time right now, and I am writing this for you. (You know who you are.) It is okay, natural, and possibly even healthy that you are having trouble...
View ArticleWhy Star Wars is my Favorite Movie
My favorite movie is Star Wars. Star Wars: A New Hope, to be precise. I chose this favorite movie at some point during high school, and it stuck. Now, some people will argue that The Empire Strikes...
View ArticleWords to Live By
I’ve been thinking a lot about grief and loss and inspiration and kindness. How are you going to tie all of those ideas together in an essay, Amy? Yeah, I’m not really sure either. But I am going to...
View ArticleHope as Fuel
Let’s talk about hope today, shall we? One of my friends posted this great thought about hope on Facebook, which I cannot share with you word-for-word because privacy, but he basically talked about the...
View ArticleSix Months
I am writing this on Wednesday, and today is the six-month anniversary of the day I started dancing again. Many weeks ago, I put this date into my day planner along with a note to write about it. Then...
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