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Amy Colleen Makes Me Think and Feel
Writer profile #23 in my 30 day reading challenge
Sometimes I find a writer who transports me back in time to a younger version of me. Usually, it is one or two characteristics of their lives which they write about so vividly I find myself drawn back decades to a previous me in vaguely similar circumstances.
Amy Colleen is a writer who wakens the memories in me. I didn’t sew my own wedding dress but I did sew the dress I wore to my brother’s wedding. I remember the exhaustion of trying to get the baby to sleep when I’ve been home alone with her all day and my spouse is at work. I was a young bride once planning for a full lifetime of love ahead knowing there would be struggles and hoping we would find the strength to weather the storms together.
This is the power of good writing. It wakes up buried emotion and prompts reflection on the life we currently live, who we used to be, and the varied twists and turns of the journey which carried us to this point.
Some younger writers make me giggle kindly with their earnest expressions of the wisdom they have gleaned in their short lives. “Oh sweet honey child,” I say to myself, “You have so very much to learn.”
Amy is not one of them. She writes from where she is with a clear-eyed recognition of what she…
