Amy Ferris, Author at ihtbd

Aprons as Art: No Strings Attached

By Amy Ferris & Maleyne Syracuse ● Commentary ● October 17, 2019

How many women hid their deepest desires or their most painful abuses underneath a stained and frayed apron?

The Ovary Office: This is No Time for ‘Polite'

By Amy Ferris ● Commentary ● June 6, 2019

Let me tell you what being polite does. It shrinks our soul, diminishes our shine, and it keeps us wedged—tucked—into a corner.

Monthly Column: WRighteous

By Amy Ferris ● Commentary ● February 14, 2019

When a pet dies: Heartbreak is heartbreak; it shouldn't be weighed by circumstance.

Weekly Column: WRighteous

By Amy Ferris ● Commentary ● January 9, 2019

I no longer needed to prove to myself or to anyone that I was the ever loyal daughter to a woman who was not an ever loyal mother.

Weekly Column: WRighteous

By Amy Ferris ● Commentary ● December 27, 2018

This is the year where hand baskets go out of fashion, because we are not going to hell, we are going to raise hell.

Weekly Column: WRighteous

By Amy Ferris ● Commentary ● December 20, 2018

How do you describe a human who was filled with all of life - every bit of it - the good, the bad, the ugly, the horrific, the broken, the awful - the beauty - and managed to sweep in and make you feel as if you were the most important person in her world for a minute or two or three...