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Alamb

Author/Television Reporter

Amanda Lamb is a professional television journalist and author. She covers murder trials by day and reads Dora the Explorer to her children at night. Somewhere in between all of that she writes about those parenting moments that catch each us off-guard in a crazy, chaotic, and wonderful way. Aman...

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Muse "Out"

Amanda Lamb

This is my last official blog entry for Skirt.  I’ve enjoyed very much being your “Muse of the Month.”  Even though I’m an author, I’m not used to daily blogging because in addition to my writing, I have a full-time job and am raising two little girls.  So this has been a good challenge for me to exercise my creative writing skills on a daily basis.

I think what blogging teaches all of us is that we have a lot to say.  Clearly, the rise in popularity of blogs, especially parenting blogs, is evidence that there are a lot of people out there with things to share.  I’m so self-critical that sometimes it is hard for me to blog because I wonder aloud whether or not anyone cares.  But in the end, you always have a choice to read or not read blogs.  If you don’t care, don’t read them, period. 

I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to do what so many women out there do, come up with something new every day.  I admire the people who are able to keep up this level of commitment to having new material daily.  I’ve tried to capture these moments in my collection of real-life parenting anecdotes called “Smotherhood:  Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years.”  If you enjoy funny, raw, edgy stories about the chaos of being a mother in the twenty-first century I think you will really relate to this book.

Thanks for your feedback on my blog, good and bad.  I love touching nerves.  That means that I’m doing my job as a writer.  Luckily, after eighteen years of being a journalist I am like Teflon when it comes to arrows and mudslinging.  But I am a real softy when it comes to positive feedback and truly appreciate it when someone takes the time to say that they have enjoyed something I have written.

So, thanks again.  This muse has left the building...