The Story of My Life (So Far)
… in a handy list format
My Accidental Book Deal
A while back, one of Terry’s clients kindly sent him a bottle of very nice champagne as a thank you for a project he’d just completed for them. Now, champagne is ...
My Accidental Journalism Career
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 ...
How I Became an Accidental Author
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 ...
Confessions of a Former ‘Influencer’
Yesterday afternoon, I spent an awkward 20 minutes sitting in a parked car in my own driveway, taking photos of myself in the slogan sweatshirt I’d had printed with the ...
Things I Hate That Other People Love
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, and why I’m terrified of crabs
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 ...
I have social anxiety – here are some of the things it’s made me do…
All the things I’ve done because of social anxiety… Instead of crossing the road, as I’d intended, I calmly turned left, and pretended that was the way I’d been intending…
Confessions of a Socially Awkward Introvert
This is a post for the introverts: and for the socially anxious over-thinkers - the ones who go through life suspecting that everyone secretly hates them, even in the absence ...
6 Things That Make Me Feel Awkward
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 ...
14 Things That Tell Me I Am Not A Real Grown Up
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, ...
I thought I was an asshole: it turns out I just have misophonia..
What it’s like to want to murder the next person who dares to crack their gum right in your ear.
Max’s Birth Story | My Elective C-Section
I've always been fascinated by birth stories. Even back in the days when I was very sure I'd never have one of my own to share, childbirth seemed like such a ...
My Health Anxiety Story
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 ...
Why I Had an Elective C-Section
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
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…
Why I Never Go Out Without Makeup
Back in my student days, I spent a few years working weekends in a call centre, in order to help pay my way through the entire contents of the Benefit ...
5 Things You Can Probably Do That I Can’t
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, ...