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  1. A Wish for Another Mother

    5/11/12 6:13pm by Amanda_Magee
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    This Mother’s Day, if I could make one request, it would be this: one of my childhood friends, a girl who peppers most of the happiest memories of my youth, needs something, I’d like to help deliver it to her.We fell out of touch as people do, and then reconnected through Facebook. I’ve often chuckled at her pictures, her three rough and tumble boys a stark contrast against my three squealing, boa-loving girls. She in Oklahoma, me in Upstate NY, both so very far from Eugene, Oregon.  Read more >

  2. Grab Your Tap Shoes

    5/10/12 2:08pm by Amanda_Magee
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    We were standing in the kitchen with the girls running laps and shrieking at the top of their lungs, the dog in hot pursuit, when I realized that if dinner wasn’t done in 30 minutes, the catastrophic domino effect would begin—bedtime would be so late that it would box out story time, which would squelch the chance of making lunches ahead of time unless I pushed my own bedtime later. Then just as I burned my hand on the edge of the burner another request came in. I couldn’t understand it so much as I felt it pelting against me as she repeated it.  Read more >

  3. Staring it Down

    4/30/12 7:15pm by Amanda_Magee
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      “Do one thing every day that scares you.”Eleanor RooseveltLast weekend we took a family hike. It was absolutely gorgeous and required just enough of me physically and mentally that I found myself completely engrossed in the task at hand. We trekked through terrain that alternated between rocky, muddy and icy until we hit the summit of Goodnow Mountain. We had just overcome a bit of doubt that we would ever find the firetower when we saw it.  Read more >

  4. Joy

    4/30/12 7:14pm by Amanda_Magee
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    Allow it.Honor it.  Amandahttp://amandamagee.com  Read more >

  5. Always There

    4/27/12 3:41pm by Amanda_Magee
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    I had a scar once. It was the subtlest line of slightly raised tissue on the uppermost spot on my right thigh. I was fascinated with it as a little girl, crafting different scenarios by which I came to have it. These weren’t stories I shared with anyone, just events I explored in my mind. I had dalliances with perfectionism as a girl, worrying that this or that wasn’t just so, but this scar, this mark, it suggested having done something. I had braved something.  Read more >

  6. Will she still be here?

    4/26/12 7:48pm by Amanda_Magee
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      Finley has been spending a large part of her days at Nana’s house. She goes to school in the morning, most days she asks me to drive her and requests that we not take “the secret way” which is code for an alley parents can take to have teachers pick the kids up and shepherd them into the building. We walk in hand-in-hand, kiss dramatically at the door and, and then off she goes for 2 hours at school and four hours at Nana’s.  Read more >

  7. Grateful to Saturday

    4/22/12 7:12am by Amanda_Magee
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    I ended Friday with a bit of a broken heart. It was a balance of professional disappointment and personal heartache. There are invitabilities in work and home for all of us, lately they just seem to be throttling closer and closer to home in such a way that I get it—I can’t control it.  Read more >

  8. Sticks and Stones

    4/9/12 10:53am by Amanda_Magee
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    I can barely manage the questioning looks the girls give me sometimes, so I cannot even begin to fathom what it would be like to be a public figure subject to international, round-the-clock scrutiny. And let’s be honest, public scrutiny grows ever closer to a modern day witch hunt. Should political figures be questioned about their morality?  Read more >

  9. Believing is believing

    4/3/12 2:10pm by Amanda_Magee
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    We were on a road trip this weekend and I felt a cloak of dissatisfaction in myself coming over me. I am always susceptible to it when I am away from home. I resent not having all my things and my hair always seems to frizz and I forget a certain bra or I sit in something and I am one pair of jeans shy of what I need. Nothing earth shattering, but isn’t it always those little ticky-tack things that bring you to your knees?  Read more >

  10. Our Time

    3/19/12 10:10am by Amanda_Magee
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    I unplugged this weekend. No Twitter. No Facebook. No email. No texting. Virtually no tv.I have a third-trimester-like-instinct to nest. I cannot stop my mind from thinking about preparing the house for warm weather, organizing the girls’ clothes, determining what we’ll be growing in the garden this year. Even more than addressing our home, there seems to be an impulse to ignore what is beyond our home.  Read more >

Amanda

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Amanda
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For someone who loves writing, I sure do loathe writing bios. I am a tom-boy from the west coast who grew up to have 3 daughters-1 girlie, 1 scrappy and 1 little-bit-of-everything. My husband is a genuinely good guy. We live, work and play hard in the Adirondacks. 

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Friendly, silly, smart ass, loving, devoted, dedicated, hopelessly romantic + optimistic, foul mouthed, dogged, lively, energetic, direct, chatty, morning-person...less annoying than these tags make me sound.

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