Posts by jamiamerine
Stevie’s Serendipity: A Serendipitous Story
Stevie’s Serendipity: A Short Story About Serendipity Listen to the new podcast Stevie’s Serendipity or read the original short story below! Take a beat, take a breath, and listen in! Of all the ridiculous scenarios Stevie Waldrop had gotten herself into, her current situation would be hard to beat. Perhaps she would never tell. …
Read MoreMOS: Mom’s Out Syndrome
MOS: Mom’s Out Syndrome Mom’s Out Syndrome or MOS (Much like the green fungus that grows in the shade, deprived of sunlight. You can dissect the metaphor.) is a phenomenon that happens in families when a mom is out of commission due to illness, injury, mental collapse, dismemberment, death of a loved one, or now…
Read MoreDestination Destiny: A Short Story about Destiny
Destination Destiny: A Short Story about Destiny Are you living your best life? Listen here or read it below, it’s your destiny! Love, J When she imagined her feet, she pictured them swollen to the size of two loaves of bread. They throbbed. Literally, her feet were throbbing in her overpriced work shoes. The…
Read MoreEverly’s Escape: A Short Story about Escape
Everly’s Escape: A Short Story about Escape Curios? Sometimes we all need an escape. Find out how Everly gets hers! Listen or Read it! Everly’s Escape The crowded room erupted in laughter. Sheepishly, Everly sipped her zinfandel. The cool, sweet drink must’ve paled in comparison to her burning, flushed cheeks. Then came the “nudge, nudge,”…
Read MoreGoldie gets Grateful: A Short Story of Thanks
Goldie gets Grateful: A Short Story of Thanks This week’s remarkable thought is inspired by a story I wrote called, Goldie gets Grateful… take a beat, take a breath, and listen in or read it for yourself! Love, J Goldie Gets Grateful Traffic was a beast. The loop was at a standstill. Goldie drummed her…
Read MoreBalanced Blair: A Short Story About Balance
Listen or Read it or Both! A short story about Balance by Jami Amerine The worn red carpet of the little chapel in the woods held many secrets. If it could speak it would tell the stories of weddings, funerals, baptisms, scandal, restoration, who really knows what else? Blair stared mindlessly at her white satin…
Read MoreWorry-Free Living in a Worried World
Is it even possible to live worry-free in a worried world? I am here to testify, yes. If you have been here for a while, you might be shocked to learn, it has been four years. Four-years, since our beloved John-John, our second oldest child, our firstborn son, boarded a bus for Marine Bootcamp. The…
Read MoreAs a Kid “Thinketh,” So that Kid is
I do not know my enneagram score. If that score can be determined by the fact that I cannot sit still long enough to finish the quiz, someone let me know. Apparently this is a thing. We are a society of scores and numbers. And, I understand the relevance of labeling our kids in some…
Read MoreOld Too Soon, Wise Just in Time
Well, I guess it is time to write a post about being old. I would have liked to credit myself as original. And I have tried to color outside the line of blogging. I didn’t even want to blog. It still makes me a little nuts that blogging is a verb. Alas, here is where…
Read MoreThe Number One Question Everyone Needs Answered About Covid-19
The Number One Question Everyone Needs Answered About Covid-19 We all have questions about Covid-19. 2020 has nearly zoomed right past us at a snail speed. We have stood by enraged or just quarantined through civil unrest, the rights of humanity, to mask or not, to homeschool or just graduate everyone who can hold a…
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