: About Me

Amanda Pearsall comes from a wide and diverse background that has included stints in the corporate hospitality industry, and global sales and marketing. She has owned two businesses, one being a restaurant that she and her husband operated together for ten years, and the other a small retail shop specializing in garden themed gifts and decor. She and her husband of twenty four years currently live full time in coastal southeastern North Carolina on their 45 foot sailing ketch, "Reminisce". They have (and hope to continue to do so!) traveled extensively throughout the United States, parts of Europe and the Caribbean. Their latest adventure was sailing "Reminisce" down the eastern seaboard from the northernmost part of Maine to their home in Southport, North Carolina. Her life experiences have provided her with a never ending source of literary inspirations. She is a prolific journal keeper and has written all her life, having contributed to several local North Carolina publications, as well as being somewhat of a "regular" on the editorial pages of her hometown newspaper. Her observations reflect the intense interest and curiosity she has about life in general, the many places she has been and the people she has known along the way.

My passion is ...

Life and living it to the hilt!

I know too much about ...

is it possible to know too much about anything?

My parents always told me ...

I could be anything I wanted

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

childhood days spent on my grandparents' farm

Why I write ...

I have so much to say!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Christopher Buckleys memoir about his parents,"Losing Mum and Pup", Coffeehouse on Sirius Radio, don't watch much TV these days (I live on a boat!)

My first job ...

working in a florist shop

My best moment ...

my daughter's birth

My inspiration ...

daily life

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Cats

16 of 29

Cats and Dogs The other evening, while sitting in the cockpit of our boat, enjoying the view and the wine, a beautiful old sloop glided up alongside the transient dock and came to rest for an overnight stay. Among the many pleasures that come with living on a boat I must admit to a certain guilty voyeurism when it comes to my fellow cruisers. My husband says I'm spying, I call it noticing. I noticed that so and so did this and that today, etc. There is a wealth of entertainment to be had by simply observing the daily activity in a marina. Is it wrong to take a healthy interest in your neig...

More..

• Helium Charter Member