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Saturday Reading Suggestions: Research, logic, and arguments.
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More books that I’ve found helpful as a Canadian writer and editor: Need to Know: Social Science Research Methods by Lisa J. McIntyre: This one might sound boring, but it changed my life and that isn’t an exaggeration. As a young university student coming from a somewhat sheltered upbringing, I desperately needed this crash…
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On Being a Woman with Late-Diagnosed ADHD
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At the age of 19, years before I’d be diagnosed or medicated for anxiety or ADHD, I was pressured into taking drivers training. Well-meaning friends signed me up without my permission and since I already felt ashamed for being “behind schedule” for my age, I begrudgingly attended. What else is a certified people-pleaser to…
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Taking Back My Cedar Chest
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When I was around thirteen, my family inherited a vintage Lane Cedar Chest. Over the next few years, the cedar chest was used for a variety of purposes. Sometimes it was our coffee table, full of soft blankets to pull out on chilly days. Other times, it was a makeshift bench for guests to…
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Saturday Reading Suggestions from a reader/writer/editor:
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Some books that I have found useful as a writer and editor.
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Friday Morning Musings from Amanda (as someone who must write):
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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your…
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“Who are you and why are you here?”
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Once upon a time…I suppose. I didn’t really know what to expect when I first stepped through the doors of the bright orange building that was (then) Grant McEwan College’s Jasper Place campus here in Edmonton. Having been homeschooled through elementary and secondary school, I wasn’t sure how I would fit into a classroom.…
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A poem I wrote for my children.
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The World is Heavy and other truths I’d rather not have to address. The truth, my loves, is that the world is heavy.I can not make it lighter for you,no matter how hard I try.All I can do is help you build your musclesand give you toolsto make the weight a little easier to…
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More About Me
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Personal Reading Preferences I love everything from cozy romance and domestic thrillers to spicy fantasy and the occasional dark romance. I also enjoy a well-written hockey romance and I’m shamelessly familiar with the wide range of tropes in romance novels. As a woman with late-diagnosed ADHD, I love to read novels with ADHD/neurodiverse representation.…
