Some of My Favorite Moments of 2011: Ran my first 5k. My firecracker niece, Bella, turned 3. My quirky thug dog, Henry, turned 3. Jumped off a 35′ cliff and didn’t die, but learned how to live. Got heat stroke and spent 2 days laughing in a hospital with a new friend. Went on my [...]
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2011 in Rearview
Posted by Amanda Fisher on January 17, 2012
http://emandasays.com/2012/01/17/2011-in-rearview/
Punctuating Life
I went for a bike ride across the country this summer with the Ride:Well Tour. Spent 2 months with 14 amazing people. Felt the pavement of 7 states under my tires. Stayed in a hospital for 2 days because of heatstroke. Jumped off of a 35-foot waterfall. As a team, rode over 3k miles and personally [...]
Posted by Amanda Fisher on September 3, 2011
http://emandasays.com/2011/09/03/punctuating-life/
Hospital Gowns Ain’t For Sissies
Last Wednesday, I was heaving my ho over a hill and as I was huffing and puffing and blowing everyone’s house down, I started to feel a little weebly wobbly and long story short…I ended up in the emergency room of the booming metropolis of Springerville, AZ. It’s official…hospitals smell the same no matter where [...]
Posted by Amanda Fisher on July 4, 2011
http://emandasays.com/2011/07/04/hospital-gowns-aint-for-sissies/
Bruised Mountain Desert Sandwiches – Ride:Well Tour
We rarely have Wi-Fi to post updates or play online, so when we find a coffee shop and some free time, we suck the ever-living cyber life out of them both. So, take a few (read: a lot) of minutes and ketchup with me on the road. Understatements of the Century: Mountains are tall. Deserts [...]
Posted by Amanda Fisher on June 25, 2011
http://emandasays.com/2011/06/25/bruised-mountain-desert-sandwiches-ridewell-tour/
Thankful
Wow. This past Tuesday (the 10th), I posted and emailed that I needed $1,000 more to be able to make my upcoming bike trip. The money was due on Wednesday (the 11th) and I posted that I needed the money by the end of the week because, honestly, I didn’t believe the money would all [...]
Posted by Amanda Fisher on May 14, 2011
http://emandasays.com/2011/05/14/thankful/
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