Articles by Amy Shinneman

Middle school … to many, some of the most miserable and tormented years of one’s life. It is often a challenging, transitional period of life when so many changes are…

Some teachers change your life. For me, one of those teachers was my fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. B. She was one of a kind and is written in my book of…

Many of us have things we look back on as we analyze our younger years that we wish we could get a “do-over” for. That is just part of living…

If there is one thing that instantly sends me into panic mode it would be when someone suggests that I try something new. As I sat in a local coffee…

Elementary school recess. It should be a great time in a child’s life. Something to look forward to. It helps to break up the long school day. I remember my…

Chances are you’ve had something or sometime in your life when things didn’t go the way you thought they would at all. You are suddenly left without a plan of…

When you are forced to be courageous in an everyday battle, humility is inevitable. This is the thought that came to mind when I was trying to think of what…

Aside from a few papers in high school and college and a sporadic journal I kept, writing and I really didn’t have much of a relationship. I was sitting in…

Anyone else have a diary with a lock on it in your early school days? Where you kept your deepest secrets and privately wrote about your childhood crushes? Under NO…