Author: AmyMatayo

Well heeeyyyy...long time no talk. Can you even say that when it's been over two years since I last showed up here? I'm not real sure, but we'll just go…

Social media. Let’s talk about it for a sec. When I started Facebook (my first attempt at social media) ten-ish years ago, it felt a little awkward at first. Then…

For this post, I originally wrote a long litany of all the ways this year went wrong. Trust me when I say it was a long list. I read and…

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A friend texted me the other day: “I think I’m depressed.” And then an author I respect and admire wrote a blog a few days ago about her recurring depression.…

  Supermodel Rory Gray just wants to go home. After wrapping up a three-day high-fashion photo shoot overseas, she’s exhausted and ready for the holiday. A holiday that involves Hollywood…

  I’ve always said that I like kind, authentic people—people who pour their souls out either in voice or on paper and then say to the world, “This is me,…

Today someone told me a story. I listened. And I was thoroughly annoyed by what I heard. Her story repeated an experience of mine nearly verbatim, so here I am…

I wrote this late last night when I should have been sleeping. A poem? A thought? An idea? A something...   Do you remember? Because she remembers. She remembers a…