North Carolina

The Light Through Her

Written before I understood what I knew

Aug 8 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

12:27

To Start Choosing Differently

On the Writing Life

Jul 26 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

Let go, or the next thing can't come.

I heard my mom say from somewhere not here

Jul 26 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

The Gardenia Yellows at Its Edges

Journal pages from the months that reshaped my life

Jul 24 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

Acts of Non-Possession

Journal pages from the months that reshaped my life

Jul 22 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

Held at the Gate

Journal pages from the months that reshaped my life

Jul 20 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

The Edge of Aliveness

Journal pages from the months that reshaped my life

Jul 18 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

The Green Ground Beneath Me

Journal pages from the months that reshaped my life

Jul 16 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

Things I wrote while my mother was dying

Phone fragments from February through June

Jul 14 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

Terrible, necessary things

Dismantling a family while it was still alive.

Jul 12 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

The Verb that Doesn't Exist

On coming and going + an invitation for you to follow along

Jul 10 • Amanda Aileen Fisher

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