by Amy Walton | Dec 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sometimes–many times–life gets complicated. Things happen outside our control, and we choose how we respond. Other times we just complicate our lives. And many times, we complicate our lives in response to something that happens outside of our...
by Amy Walton | Dec 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Confession: I have never watched the popular TV series “This Is Us,” which ran for nearly six years. Many of my friends never missed an episode, but me? Nope. Never watched it. I was thinking about that phrase yesterday–this is us–as my...
by Amy Walton | Dec 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was growing up, I loved looking at the Sears Wish Book, drooling over desired toys and hoping Santa would bring them to me, especially anything Barbie. During times of financial stress, I received knock off Barbies and knock off Barbie clothes. Some...
by Amy Walton | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A broken fish sculpture with an intact heart I recently broke a sweet pastel painted fish one of my sons made years ago. I’ve always been careful when I dust because I have so many little works of art sitting around, created by noted artists and by my sons. As I...
by Amy Walton | Nov 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Facebook, It occurred to me the other day that we have been in a relationship since 2008. 17 years?! When dear Mr. Zuckerberg decided to expand your presence from the college community to everyone, I was excited. I think most people were. We experienced the joy...
by Amy Walton | Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Heart I Created by Folding the Pages of a Book! Stress doesn’t just wear on your body — it crowds your thoughts, shortens your breath, and closes down the feeling that anything’s truly yours. Creative work offers a way back. Not by pretending the stress...
by Amy Walton | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Always look up… and speak words of life. Your body and soul will thank you! Photo: Roger M. Richards Warning: This blog post contains a few “cuss” words. When I was growing up, cursing or–as we say in the south–cussing, was forbidden in...
by Amy Walton | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Breathing in God’s Creation is NOT a Waste of Time! I’m going to share something of which I’m not proud, but I have a point to make. Back in the late winter and early spring, while sitting home some evenings, I took a dive into a rabbit hole, ...
by Amy Walton | May 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Photo Credit: J. Howard Rodman Life really does begin at the end of one’s comfort zone. Far too many people–including myself (at times), friends, coaching clients–have spent long days on plateaus in life, where we just coast along, accepting the...
by Amy Walton | Apr 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Trees My Dear Daddy Planted… Now Gone In 2018, I sold the home in which I grew up. It’s a small and humble home, but it has beautiful hardwood floors (original) and had a backyard full of towering trees. Key word: HAD The current owners apparently feared...
