MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 2022
Hello from the other side of 30, my friends! This month has been a whirlwind between my 30th birthday, wedding planning, and my bachelorette party. As you can see, my friends got me a Tarot reader and I apparently have a kinda judgey face when having my cards read. Who knew?
On top of it all, a toe-tally random piece that came out in early March has gone quasi-viral, and it’s not at all the sort of essay I expected to garner so much attention. I’m talking, of course, about the essay I wrote to process my Big Feelings about losing my left big toenail and how it dragged up some medical trauma from my chronic pain diagosis a few years ago. You can read all about in my essay in Age of Empathy, titled “When I Started Running, I Expected to Lose a Toenail—But Not Like This.”
That piece has been far and away the most viewed article I’ve ever written, and certainly takes the top slot for March 2022 without much competition.
Nevertheless, I wouldn’t want to leave out my other darlings!
In March, I also…
Penned a reflection on turning 30 and how it’s not quite the overwhelming thing I thought it’d be.
Finally put down my thoughts about yearning for another summer like that one time we all seemed to be playing Pokemon Go. Ah, the togetherness and harmony.
Wrote about the decision to switch my birth control method to only have four periods a year, for better management of my chronic pain condition.
In other exciting writing-related news, I revived my weekly newsletter, Amanda Reads! You can subscribe for free and get weekly reading recommendations (books and online articles) and a tarot reading to start your week!
Your Book Friend also went legit, because I snapped up the domain name! You can now find all the bookish goodness not only on our Medium site, but also at YourBookFriend.com! There’s always way too much new content there for me to summarize in these monthly highlights, so do give us a follow if you want book reviews, reading recaps, and other bookish goodness. For a quick preview, there’s always the monthly Best Books recap, one of my favorite posts to write.
That’s about it from me for this month, dear friends! Thank you for your support and your interest in my words. If you’d like to throw a little monetary support my way, you can Buy Me a Coffee.
Here’s to a great April! See you in May from the other side of matrimony!