Amanda previously ran two of their own blogs and has contributed to community blogs as well as guest posts and interviews for several other blogs. You can find out more about those below.

Amanda’s Blogs

Embracing AdventureEmbracing Adventure was Amanda’s main blog from 2011 to 2017 in which they wrote about daily life in Germany, travels in Europe, language learning, going to grad school, being childfree, bisexual visibility, creative writing, books and authors, and more.

Investing in Fitness was a side blog to document Amanda’s experiences with various exercise methods and related topics such as nutrition and wellbeing.

Guest Posts & Interviews

Amanda contributed guest posts and interviews to several blogs. They are listed below. Those still available are linked.

*Getting Out to Explore (Interview) on MultiCOOLty
*Cake in a Jar on Ech & Will
*Things I Miss in America on Land of Candy Canes
*Things I Love About Living in Germany on Land of Candy Canes
*Interview about Heidelberg for Military Monday on Handling With Grace
*Heidelberg Germany on the Summer Vacation Tour on Oaxacaborn
*The German Dining Experience on Life Lessons of  Military Wife
*The Cost of Living in Germany on Life Lessons of  Military Wife

Community Blogs

Amanda was a contributor to the community blogs Fantasy Rantz and Germany Ja. She also contributed a series of posts to a virtual tour of Toledo, Ohio for a poetry project she participated in called Found Poetry Frontiers. Although the sites are no longer active, you can see the titles of Amanda’s contributions to each below.

Fantasy Rantz
*Game of Thrones TV Series vs A Song of Ice and Fire Book Series
*Vampires & Zombies: Why One Is Getting Sexier & the Other Isn’t (or at Least Shouldn’t Be).
*In Defense of Video Games

Germany Ja
*Learning German with FluentU
*Receiving Your Car in Germany
*Shipping Your Car (POV) to Germany
*Mainz Fasching Parade
*Getting an American Tourist Passport in Germany
*The Chocolate Museum (Schokoladenmuseum)
*On Base Housing: Vogelweh Air Base
*Pre-Orders Preparations
*Cafe Rossi
*PCSing Our Pet Pooches
*Visiting a German Dermatologist
*On Post Housing: Heidelberg
*Military Installation Overview: USAG Heidelberg
*Favorite German Products

Found Poetry Frontiers
*Welcome to Toledo, OH
*The Glass City
*Toledo’s Bodies of Water
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