by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 25, 2009 | Comedy, Reminiscences, Satire
The exceptionalism of Jesus Christ was his livelihood, and yet he could not bring himself to believe it. The Reads’ little red Honda scooted down the narrow driveway along the rail fence of the Christmas tree farm. It was December of 1993; Amanda was a little...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 16, 2009 | Journal
Meet the ninth child and sixth daughter of the Read family… I love my littlest sister! Rebecca Laurel (“oath of victory”) was born on December 8, 2009 at 12:42 p.m. She was 8 lbs., 1 oz. and 19 in. long (shortest and heaviest baby in our family...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 16, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts! You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”? I’m discovering that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 11, 2009 | Reminiscences
Nine years ago today, I walked down to the newspaper stand on the Redstone Arsenal military post to fetch a copy of The Huntsville Times that included an article featuring our family. I still remember the days preceding it when the news reporter and photographer...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 3, 2009 | Comedy, Politics, World Views
I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would think about college students having to read his rough-draft of the Declaration of Independence. First drafts are rather embarrassing, you know. Since I am tired of “Fact Checking Muslim Demographics” being my...
