Little Mr. Assertive-Pants
Little Mr. Assertive-Pantsby Amy PearceAssertive- acting confidently: confident in stating a position or claim. Today, I took two of my nephews and my niece to a local children’s pizza/arcade center....
View ArticleFor Crying in the Cankles!
For Crying in the Cankles by Amy Pearce CANKLES: n. the absence of definition from calf to ankle. No one wants to look down to discover they’ve somehow developed a case of the cankles. Yet, that's...
View ArticleMaybe she's ugly
Maybe she’s ugly By Amy Pearce I find this message to be of the utmost importance. It’s a crucial subject that I believe, the sharing of, can be a highly affective antidote for what is poisoning the...
View ArticleTo Kill a Gentleman
To Kill a GentlemanBy Amy PearceIt was a chilly and uncomfortable day. The air was biting and the wind brisk. I observed a couple as they walked out of a restaurant. They must have been in their...
View ArticleDiscussing Toyota's disgusting marketing
Discussing Toyota's disgusting marketingBy Amy PearceI am disgusted with Toyota and their resent commercials for the Highlander. I have nothing against the Highlander as a product. I’ve driven one and...
View ArticleProp 8 vs. Hate
Prop 8 vs. HateBy Amy Pearce 8: The Mormon Proposition, Equality for Some (A documentary about Mormons and their relationship to Prop 8.) Filmmaker and ex-Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
View ArticleDreams Are What We Make Them Today
By Amy PearceAfter graduating high school, I went to cosmetology school for a while and decided the atmosphere wasn’t for me, so dropped out. After cosmetology school I went to a community college...
View ArticleKFC vs. Popeye's
By Amy Pearce This post is dedicated to Shakira Farrar. I met Shakira only a short time ago. We met through mutual friends and one day found ourselves in conflicting conversation with each other. You...
View ArticleMORMONS: Oppressed?
MORMONS: Oppressed?By Amy PearceIt’s been interesting, to say the least, to live in Southern California. I’ve really enjoyed my time here. The vastly diverse people I’ve met have been delightful and...
View Article10 Songs Worth Discovering
By Amy Pearce 2012 was a roller coaster for me. There was excitement and heartache. Dreams were realized and dreams were devastated. That's how life is, I've come to find. There were times when a song...
View ArticleSafety painting tips for pregnant women
As a professional painter and artist, I made this video because there is so much information out there that is false...and it's infuriating to me. There are far too many claims that generalize...
View ArticlePoor people love their quarters!
I feel bad for people who aren't poor...they'll never experience the same excitement that comes from counting up their quarters. ... I feel equally bad for friends who go out to dinner with those poor...
View ArticleI'm a kleptomaniac (Confessions of a pregnant brain! #1-#3)
By Amy Pearce Pregnancy brain is real! Whoever says it's not is selling something. Here are some recent memoirs from my pregnant-rich life: Confessions of a pregnant brain #1 After paying for my food...
View ArticleAnd then I pooped. (Confessions of a pregnant brain #4)
By Amy Pearce I took about ten pregnancy tests, throughout the first six weeks, to reassure myself I was pregnant, because it just felt so surreal. But I remember when I could feel my baby for the...
View ArticleDown Syndrome and Abortion (on high alert)
Carissa and me shortly after she was born. By Amy Pearce In honor of my Sunshine Sissa! I'll never forget the phone call from the nurse urging me to come in as soon as possible to get the CVS test...
View Article10 things I'm glad I never knew before I got knocked up...List #1
By Amy Pearce A big thank you to all my Facebook friends and pregnancy forum buddies who contributed to this list! WARNING: This list is not for the faint of heart. You may not want to read it if...
View ArticleFreedom is dead.
By Amy Pearce From the title, you may anticipate this post to be one of a political nature. It's not. Freedom was my car; my long time companion. She was a 1996 Infiniti, G20 and she chugged along...
View ArticlePink hair? Why not?!
By Amy Pearce Yesterday marked the halfway point of my pregnancy. Why not celebrate with a little hairdo change-a-roony? I've been wanting to color the tips of my hair pink and/or purple for some...
View ArticleExtreme beauty measures
Foot binding By Amy Pearce You can travel all over the world and find extreme, and seemingly bazaar, beauty measures. We gasp at the thought that people could and would do such things to their bodies....
View Article10 things you should NEVER say to a pregnant woman…and what to say instead
By Amy Pearce Pregnant woman are in a class all of their own. You may have known a woman for twenty years, but the day she becomes pregnant, she's a completely different person. She'll suddenly think...
View ArticleCelery is stupid
Stephanie and her sad celery By Amy Pearce I went to a diner with my friends Brooke and Stephanie. We were so engrossed in our conversation that we failed to notice the "garnish" on our plates....
View ArticleWhat it's like to be pregnant, single, AND A MORMON...
By Amy Pearce I love being pregnant. I love being Mormon. Being single isn't what I planned, but it's not the worst. BUT being all three is really, really hard. ....... A friend of mine invited me to...
View Article12 hilariously ironic grammatical errors
By Amy Pearce I will admit that I find equal amounts of joy and pain in recognizing grammatical errors (and I, myself, am all too often, guilty of them). My favorite grammatical errors are those of an...
View ArticleFat or Pregnant? You Decide.
By Amy Pearce It can be really disconcerting for a woman to learn that she has gained 15, even 30 pounds (at 20 weeks, or so, pregnant), even though the baby growing inside of her is only barely a...
View ArticleSomehow It Works - by Amy Pearce - Official Music Video
By Amy Pearce It's an incredible thing to feel inspired with an idea or concept, and it's a truly humbling experience when an army of people rally together to make it come to fruition. That is what...
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