Why sleep when you can NOT do that and get more and more tired and lean ever closer to the ground until you’re one with it and moss grows over your bent body and small children climb to the top of you and roll down effervescent with laughter?

If you put a #CW on something, I’m going to look. Doesn’t matter if I’m interested in the topic. I can’t NOT look. And now I’ve seen some dudes asshole. #TimeForBed #IllNeverLearn

the thing about social media is I read everyone else’s posts like they’re real people and I read my own posts like I’m three raccoons in a trenchcoat

Ok, I’m going to start spending at least 15 min a day here both reading and contributing in the hopes that — slowly but surely — it will start to feel like home. (I miss Twitter.)

Hi! I’m Amanda. I’m on a mission to create a world that’s worthy of my daughter; we have a long way to go. This distance inspired me to launch Mighty Forces, a company devoted to helping women leaders get loud — to share their authentic voices & experiences in bigger ways & in so doing, to reshape the world. I’m also a writer (a book, blogs, essays, TV scripts), improv actor, & yogi. I split my time between NYC & NY’s Hudson Valley. I’m married to @jordanhirsch. He’s cute.

A friend just left me a voicemail (we old) filled with rage about a series of health issues she’s having related to her former pregnancies, and how hard it is to find care and resources. And then she said, “And this is something new for me, but I’m asking myself what I can do about it. Because this is bullshit.” YES. We shouldn’t have to fix patriarchy’s insidious effects on our health and everything else — but if we don’t, who will? In our agency lies a revolution.

Let the holiday countdown begin...