Living between the Lines and What It Reveals about Our Stories

April 3, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

When my son was a young boy, he had a dream that he found me dead beneath a pile of dirty clothes…

From Here to Hear

July 21, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

This is a rare morning of solitude. Sitting in the gray light, I feel the damp air sift through the screen door behind me as the smell of rain lays itself across the skin of my bare neck and right shoulder.

I’m listening.

That “Thing” You Never Finished? It may take more than magic

May 12, 2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

By Amanda Cleary Eastep Do you know which creature in the animal kingdom has the longest gestation period? Elephant? Nope. Frill shark? Ha! What’s so big about a 3.5 year pregnancy? The answer is a woman with an unfinished novel she started in college that insists on being born butt first. Technically, I finished […]

What Your Purpose Is Not

September 5, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Purpose. No topic is too big for the #wholemamas. Follow us over at Erika Shirk’s Overflow blog. By Amanda Cleary Eastep Every night I take it to bed with me, wake up with it, and feel it breathing down my neck when I’m not giving enough attention to it. (No, it isn’t an overly affectionate labrador.) It’s my […]