Instagram and Facebook are down, so I’m going to show y’all my homemade chocolate chip banana bread here:

Baking chocolate chip banana bread, cleaning the kitchen with Mrs Meyers gingerbread scented cleaning spray, and listening to holiday music on my Alexa Echo Show! It’s festive in my kitchen!

So pleased to have poems in the new issue of Two Hawks Quarterly! Check it out here: twohawksquarterly.com

Excerpt from a recent poem of mine published in Mulberry Literary! Check out the new issue to read the entirety and some other great poems here: shorturl.at/yej9K

A few of the poems that appear in my folio in the new issue of UCity Review. Read all nine poems here: shorturl.at/dtLjg

"You close the door to oak trees, sandcastles, thrift stores with their rows of vases and handbags." - Amanda Auchter is featured (9 poems) at UCity Review ... @alauchter.bsky.social #poetry www.ucityreview.com/29_Auchter_A...

Stop by UCity Review and check out a preview of my third manuscript: Nine new poems up at UCity Review! Come and see a preview of my third manuscript here: shorturl.at/dtLjg

Fred is helping to decorate for Christmas 🎄

For your Wednesday—

Is it just me, or are the holidays both the loneliest and most joyful times simultaneously? How does that work?

Am I the only one who will only watch romcoms during the holidays and at no other time of the year?

It’s time for all the cheesy Hallmark and Netflix holiday romcoms, all the baking, all the nostalgia-ing, and none of the fucks.

Watching Our Little Secret on Netflix made me crave cookies (no spoilers, here!), so I made chocolate chip peppermint sugar cookies at 10:30pm 🤷🏻‍♀️🍪

I bought this gorgeous and incredibly soft Southern Living blanket at Dillard’s on Black Friday and Mustache has already decided it’s his.

Watching the Lindsay Lohan Christmas romcom on Netflix 💻, drinking gingerbread tea, and knitting myself a scarf 🧣 Ultimate cozy!

My new poem, “Actinic Keratosis as Bad Love Story,” is now up at Mulberry Literary! shorturl.at/5dewl

This is pretty funny.

I’m spending this quiet, chilly morning reading this little classic by Marjorie Bowen. Read more classics! The language is amazing!

Sneak peek of the Christmas tree in progress: knitted (by me) baubles, glass poinsettias, Spode snowmen and nutcrackers, felted doves, real pinecones.

Husband just got home from work (gotta keep those planes flying!) & I made a ham in the crock pot with brown sugar and pineapple, dressing with cranberries, sweet potato casserole, a corn soufflé, and a pumpkin pie! It’s just us, but we’re going to eat and watch the original Miracle on 34th Street!

Just a reminder what your cat Fluffy can and can’t eat this Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 🦃

I was reading a story — “The Reckoning” — by Edith Wharton where she uses the phrase “the mentally unemployed” and I’m going to use that to describe MAGA devotees from now on.

I’m watching the new episode of the new season of #Outlander and I’m not 5 minutes in and I’m already emotional 🥹

I’m thinking of taking my writing in a new direction and by new direction, I mean a totally different genre (not to skip out on my poems or nonfiction essays and reviews). Any guesses?

A bathroom is a bathroom. There are stalls with locks. Sinks. Mirrors for lipstick touch ups. Hand dryers. The end. Quit policing what’s under someone’s skirt and lock the door and do your business. We should be more worried that people are washing their hands.

I have three people in my larger orbit that are trans and let me tell you — I’d rather be in a stall next to them than a MAGA any day of the week.

I stand with @sarahemcbride.bsky.social. Bathrooms are to do your business and, if you’re a woman or woman-identifying, touch up your lipstick and powder your nose. Nancy Mace — and people like her — needs to get over herself.

Dr Oz?! WTAF.

First homemade cranberry bread & tea in my Fox Books (iykyk) mug!

The funniest Venn diagram

Husband and I have really gotten into the show Why Women Kill. It’s phenomenal and so well acted! Also the humor! Has anyone else seen it?

I’ve never started decorating this early for Christmas and the ways things are going, I’m totally fine with it. So is Fluffy.

I'll be in conversation with James Allen Hall on poetry and mental health/healing/enduring on Monday, Nov. 18, at 6 pm EST. Registration link in the comments. 💙

Reading a favorite Agatha Christie novel* tonight and it struck me with sorrow that we don’t use words like hitherto and henceforth anymore. *By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Homemade deluxe nachos tonight were the perfect comfort food. So good!

See y’all at the government sanctioned wellness farm picking greens and getting “re-parented” instead of taking my anxiety and antidepressant meds. futurism.com/neoscope/rfk...

Xers and Xennials (me): It’s over. They were playing Stone Temple Pilots at Kroger.

Who made this? Ahahaha

2 poets. 2 new books from Variant Literature. 1 virtual reading. Join @toddedillard.bsky.social and me on Friday, December 13th at 9PM EST via Zoom. We will be reading poems, talking about our new books, about life, writing, and who knows what else. Register to join us here: tiny.cc/zehvzz

It’s nice being in a place where everyone can spell.

Jake Tapper on Trump’s pick of RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services: “Well America, I hope you like measles”.

I love being in a place where no one randomly goes MAGA on me for my simple posts about knitting scarves and hats.

I’ve existed on handfuls of Starburst, cups of tea, banana bread, and sweet potato fries since the election. You?

It’s official: I’ve left the Bad Place and am now here for the Bluer Skies. Still on IG & FB, too.

My Episcopal church, which is fairly liberal, just announced its women’s Bible study group will be starting a deep dive on The Book of Revelations on — get this — Jan. 6, 2025. Well played, EWC. Well played. 😂

Saw elsewhere: This isn’t a cabinet. This is a junk drawer.

Nothing hits like chicken and stars when you have an upset tummy.

Most Texas school board candidates who support book bans lost their elections

Hi, new friends! I’m a poet, essayist, and book reviewer. Here’s my latest review of Nicole Cooley’s “Mother Water Ash” in Rhino: bit.ly/3YMP7oH