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Letting the Dead Speak

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A picture is worth a thousand words. Some pictures tell thousands of stories.   Yesterday I experienced a […]

Amanda Shaffer 03/11/2020 Current Events, Domestic, Politics

6 Things I’m Bad At

As I get ever closer to my 50th birthday its seems every where I look there is a […]

Amanda Shaffer 11/01/2015 Girly Things, Random Stuff

Unimaginable

Yesterday I got news that a child of an acquaintance of mine had committed suicide. He was 37. […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/05/2014 Mother Issues, Pages

Queer

The word Queer is one I have not used in a very long time. When I was in […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/02/2014 Current Events, Politics, The Past

My Dad

My Dad died December 2, 1992. He was 62. He had cancer and treatments and it all seemed […]

Amanda Shaffer 08/12/2013 The Past

Address Book

Once upon a time I had a physical address book. When someone moved I drew a line through […]

Amanda Shaffer 03/06/2013 Domestic

Reply All

This is an amalgam post because I can’t settle my mind. In my usual overanlyzing of my own […]

Amanda Shaffer 18/04/2013 Domestic

Wish List

I made a mistake the other day of responding to a Tweet about the Sandy Hook school shooting. Got a flurry of replies and personal messages from folks saying things like “quit living in fantasy land”, “gun laws don’t work” and “I protect my children with a Glock”.

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Amanda Shaffer 19/12/2012 Current Events, Philosophical

Baking

My friend is grieving. A young person enrolled in her program has died. His fellow students, the staff […]

Amanda Shaffer 24/10/2012 Uncategorized

Guns

The school shooting in Chardon is tragic. I cannot imagine what it is like to be a parent […]

Amanda Shaffer 29/02/2012 Current Events, Politics

Certitude

One of my favorite things is for someone to tell me how I feel. I am fascinated that […]

Amanda Shaffer 13/02/2012 Mother Issues

Personhood

I could have just as easily called this post “Doublespeak” or “Having your cake and eating it too”, […]

Amanda Shaffer 07/12/2011 Politics

Re-gifting

My dad died 19 years ago today. I thought of him as I walked to work and saw […]

Amanda Shaffer 02/12/2011 Domestic

A Wake without Liquor, or Trippin’ Down the Rabbit Hole

Went to the wake and funeral for an old friend from the neighborhood today. When its said out […]

Amanda Shaffer 07/04/2011 The Past

Recessional

I decided on the perfect song to be played at my funeral – Praise You, by Fatboy Slim. […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/03/2011 Uncategorized
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