The Woman Who Became My First Safe Place
Chapter Four of The Woods Behind Me — On quiet strength, memory, and the kind of love that stays
Amanda Leigh Larkin
Author of The Woods Behind Me — a memoir about abandonment, survival, misdiagnosis, and the quiet people who save us without fanfare. The complete book is on Kindle now.
The Season After the Storm
Kansas City, My 17th Birthday
The Woods Behind Me
The Man With Two Shadows
Caregiving, memory, and the complicated mercy of loving someone who once hurt you.
The Restaurant with the Glass Walls
What a small-town restaurant revealed about loyalty, work, and being worth the dollar.
The First Crossing
That moment has always felt like the first crossing of my life. A thin ribbon of water separating two futures: the one where I was abandoned, and the one where someone chose to carry me out.