About Me

My name is Amy. I am 28 years old and single. I try to love God and other people, but I am not always successful. Sometimes, I am downright selfish.

I love books. Right now, I work in an adult literacy and English language acquisition program. The people I spend my time with at work do not generally enjoy books. Therefore, I talk about books a lot on my blog. But because I'm ADD, I also talk about God and my faith when I'm feeling bold enough to share, television and film (because I'm infatuated with good storytelling), any travel I might be lucky enough to do, and whatever minor things startle and surpise me in life.

I've lived in Southern California for three and a half years, but still consider myself a midwest girl at heart. I grew up in St. Louis and I miss that dear strange city.

I love Japanese and French culture, trying new food, being challenged in my beliefs and thought processes, and making new friends.

The name of this blog is silly, because I had no idea what I was doing when I started to blog three years ago. I tried to think of the easiest url for people that I knew to find me by. I had some generic title of the blog originally, but when added to other people's blogrolls, they added me as My Friend Amy. So I went with it. It kind of works out, because if people add me as Amy, I'm at the top, if they add me as My Friend Amy, I appear to be popular and well liked. And I really do think of all you as my friends if you read and comment.

I love blogging, too, did I mention that? You can also find me at:
The Friendly Book Nook -- a joint book blog with my mom and sister AND
Inspired to Action -- a collaborative social justice blog

Oh and I write. But that's a fragile work in progress. :)

I would love to hear from you. You can always email me at mypalamy AT gmail DOT com
OR
Use the contact form

I try to respond to every email I get and also if you enable your email address in comments I will respond to you there. And yes, I happily accept review copies of books.

If you want to read some of my most popular posts, check out the hall of fame. You can see my blogger profile here.

(to my regular and longtime readers...I wanted to make an about me page, and the only way to do that on blogger is by writing a new post!)