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something deep and witty: Of Knowing
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Something deep and witty. Tuesday, November 12, 2013. I sat in the auditorium full of students laughing and joking, waiting for Chapel to start. I was quiet and alone. My stomach churned from nerves and from morning sickness. I was eighteen, unmarried, and had just found out I was pregnant. I was in my first week at Dallas Baptist University- I only ended up staying two weeks- and I had no idea what I was going to do with myself. And I've been trying to figure out what God's plan is for me ever since.
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something deep and witty: Five Minute Friday - Laundry
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Something deep and witty. Friday, October 18, 2013. Five Minute Friday - Laundry. First off, I have four kids. Let that sink in for a while. Laundry with four kids is never-ending. A friend suggested one time that I just fold the baskets of laundry as they come out of the dryer instead of pulling the clean clothes out and letting them sit in baskets for an indeterminate amount of time. It's a great plan, really it is. It makes perfect sense. But it ain't gonna happen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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something deep and witty: Five Minute Friday: Write
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Something deep and witty. Friday, October 04, 2013. Five Minute Friday: Write. It took me a few decades and a come-to-Jesus moment to call myself a writer. I've talked about it ad. On this blog, and you can dig into those. But lately, the writing has been mighty scarce. And I've found myself wondering, what do you call a writer who doesn't write? Does that mean I'm not a writer anymore? Sort of like, if a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it still make a noise? If you love writing, then I...
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something deep and witty: The Blue Pencil
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Something deep and witty. Thursday, August 22, 2013. I have started an editing business. I first started talking about copyediting seven years ago, not too long after I started blogging. It was one of the main reasons I went back to school- to earn a degree that would one day allow me to edit- and I've been slowly acquiring experience ever since. After editing my friend Karin Kaufman's indie novels ( The Witch Tree. I placed an ad on the Kindle boards, and I was SO NERVOUS. I suppose there is just so muc...
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something deep and witty: Today
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Something deep and witty. Friday, July 18, 2014. Over the past several months, I have been withdrawing from social media. Ironic, of course, that I would use social media to declare my withdrawal from social media.). You see, the editing business. Is booming, and it's all I can do to keep up with it. There's a lot to be said on that subject, but not here. I've got all the busyness I can handle, and I'm daily finding how to live this life, how to make art. Right now, where I am. Not trying to figure o...
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something deep and witty: Sundries
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Something deep and witty. Monday, November 29, 2010. The plan was to use that photo on my blog. At some point, I knew I would have some situation where we had to roll out the big guns, and BAM! I would have the perfect picture to accompany the adage. I was prepared to make people chuckle. Revel in my cleverness, O followers of my blog! Bow down before the preparedness of She Who Takes Pictures of Larger-Than-Life Guns Just So She Can Use Them on Her Blog. Four years, and I never could find the punch line.
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something deep and witty: Go on, then
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Something deep and witty. Monday, February 18, 2013. Go on, then. I mentioned a few weeks ago. It's not all bad news. The overall plot and most of the characters have remained. But the entire feel of the story is going to be very, very different. I'm hammering out plot points that I was never quite sure of, I'm creating a mood board. Writing, by J. Paxon Reyes. But the actual writing? Haven't started yet. And as I thought about it this morning, the old fear. I fear that I am not good enough. We have self...
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something deep and witty: Meeting Ms. Write
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Something deep and witty. Thursday, April 01, 2010. Meeting Ms. Write. These memoir classes have been an incredible bit of reflection, which, as I thought about writing this post this evening, I realized is pretty cool coming at the end of my college experience. I turned 30 this year, and I'll graduate with my Bachelor's degree in a few months. I've learned scads over the past several years, and it's been really good to reflect on all of that growth and change. But I think it's pretty good. I pondered th...
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something deep and witty: About
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Something deep and witty. I was born Amelia Kathryn, but I've always gone by Amy. When I got my first checking account, my mom asked if I wanted to sign my name Amy K., and I've done it ever since. I'm fancy that way. I'm married to my best friend, Aaron, and we have four children: Halle, 13; Chloe, 12; Noah, 8; and Micah, 1. We're part of a house church in Waco, Texas where our friends are also our family. I started blogging back in 2005. It is a means of communicating, of knowing, of creating.
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something deep and witty: Pause
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Something deep and witty. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. These days I am feeling a little cracked and a lot weary. Not the old cracked, the old weary. I am not drowning, and the cracks are not chasms. This is not depression, but the reality of a busy season in life. And I'm not overwhelmed by the cracks or the weariness. I'm just accepting them as part of life right now and working out how to live with them. For as much as I am learning about discipline this year, I am also learning about grace. And not beca...
