piecemeal people

About me

Gender Female
Location Westbrook, ME, United States
Introduction I'm Amanda, and I've been back in Maine for about a year after living in the Baltimore area for 12. Married, stay-at-home mom of four kids - my custodial stepdaughters are twelve and nine; my older son is four and my baby boy is seven months old. This blog/business is, quite literally, the one thing I do for myself. I love it here.
Interests spring in Maryland, fall in Maine, cooking, gardening, white wine, chocolate, cheese, sweetgrass, woodsmoke, art projects, making lists, board games, family movie nights, rearranging furniture, organizing things, stocking stuffers, great bargains, thrift stores, Target, Thanksgiving, anything on PBS, Lost, The Office, stand-up comedy, 80s music, Scrabble, the English language, Justin Timberlake whenever he's on SNL
Favorite Movies Almost Famous, Elf, Finding Neverland, The Karate Kid II, Lost in Translation, Muriel's Wedding, Singles, The Sound of Music, Tommy Boy, The Truman Show
Favorite Music ABBA, Black Crowes, Cake, Sam Cooke, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band, Celine Dion (weird I know), Foo Fighters, Indigo Girls, Janet Jackson, Killers, Kings of Leon, Ray LaMontagne, George Michael, Van Morrison, Pearl Jam, Old Crow Medicine Show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Supremes, James Taylor, Temptations, TMBG, U2
Favorite Books The Gift of Fear (Gavin De Becker), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini), The World According to Garp (John Irving), She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb), The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis), Blindness (Jose Saramago), Hamlet (Shakespeare)