by Amanda Read Sheik | May 14, 2010 | Journal
Due to my father’s surprise business mission to do work on the Gulf, my family and I are staying in a penthouse condo (on the 18th floor!) in Gulf Shores. What a blessing – it’s beautiful here! Early this morning my mother, seven of my siblings...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 7, 2007 | Journal
What better way to spend a dreary, cloudy day in early January than to reminisce all day long? I have no intention of wasting time, necessarily, but rather passing the depressing time of recovering from festivities and colds… {Oh, never mind…} Now that I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 28, 2006 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal
We have had a series of surprising events lately. Mitzi, much to the family’s astonishment, had a little tom kitten the other morning in the kennel. That was not supposed to happen. She was not supposed to have a third litter of...