I’d never really wanted to be a journalist. Actually, that’s not quite true: it would be more accurate to say that I’d never really considered a career in journalism as something ...
Hi, I’m Amber. People who don’t know me generally describe me as a romance author, lifestyle blogger, or “really annoying, actually,” depending on how much they like me. People who do know me, on the ...
Hi! I'm Amber Eve: rom com author, blogger, and newsletter-writer (amongst other things...). I've been documenting my life on this website for almost 20 years now, but that's quite a ...
And with that sentence, I think I’ve finally done it: I’ve reached peak cringe. My entire body is just one giant cringe right now. I am inside out from The Cringe. Just to…
I first posted this list of things I hate back in 2017, when I was pregnant and... just really, really grumpy, apparently. Well, I'm no longer pregnant, so I don't have ...
Kabourophobia: Fear of crabs (the sea-creature, not the disease). From the Greek root kabouros, meaning crab, and phobos, meaning fear. - Urban Dictionary In one of my earliest memories, I'm ...
All the things I've done because of social anxiety... One day last week, I was out for a run, when I happened to arrive at a road I needed to cross, ...
Because parenthood can be tough for the over-thinkers of the world. Here are some of my thoughts on parenting when you have social anxiety (or are just a bit anti-social, really…)
I''m an awkward person. But you know that. I'm that particularly difficult combination of introverted and shy, and while I do enjoy social occasions (especially when they involve people I'm comfortable ...
About five years ago, almost all of my friends decided to start having children, pretty much simultaneously, and this came as a huge surprise to me, because WHOA, isn't that, ...
Misophonia: when sounds make you murderous... I'm standing in line at the cash register in a clothing store in Orlando, when suddenly I hear it. CRACK! The girl in line behind me is ...
My health anxiety / hypochondria story... Over the last few years, it feels like talking about anxiety has almost become one of those blogger trends: like pineapples, or crown braids, or ...
Well, it looks like we're doing this, folks: I'm having an elective c-section. (Or that's the plan, anyway: but more on that later...) Last week I had an appointment with my doctor, ...
My ectopic pregnancy story... From the second I found out I was pregnant, I knew there was something wrong. Actually, let me rephrase that: part of the problem was that there WAS ...
Now, there were lots of things that sucked about working in a call centre (like, LOTS of things…) but one of the good things about working the weekend shift is…
Now that I've made myself sound a bit strange with my admission that I'm in serious danger of becoming a recluse, I thought I'd make myself sound even MORE weird, ...
When I was in my early twenties, I was made redundant from my very first job - as a reporter on the local newspaper - along with our editor, who ...
