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Stories, Creative Living, and a Bit of Chaos

It’s been a busy January, and I’m still switching my brain off vacation mode since getting back from our honeymoon. Do you want to know what makes it easier for me to get started on my new year’s to-do list? Looking back at everything I accomplished last year. I’ve been a bit slow to do that, but the winter 2022-23 issue of South Magazine just arrived with my newest articles!


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Closer to Nature

North Carolina’s first certified forest therapy trail offers a different kind of outdoor wellness experience.

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Live Well, Feel Well

Wellness products that make good gifts to yourself and others to support physical and mental well-being.

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Lights, Camera, Freeze Frame

Tyler Beauchamp’s debut novel, “Freeze Frame,” is a journey of forging friendships, processing tragedy, and risking it all in the pursuit of artistic passion.


I hadn’t published any articles since the summer 2022 issue; our COVID-delayed wedding kept me too busy to contribute to the fall issue. But I was happy to be able to write these pieces before we left on our honeymoon. And I’m already looking forward to what I can write about this spring!

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Amanda is a writer and artist currently based outside Greensboro, NC. Her background includes journalism and digital content strategy, with published nonfiction spanning food, travel, and business profiles. Her fiction features characters who follow their own codes, blurring the lines between good guys who do bad things and bad guys who do good things.


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