Amber L. Carter's Blog

For this week’s Friday Flashback, we’re flashing back to one of the most beloved Halloween movies for the Xenial generation: 1986’s The Worst Witch!  A television film based on a children’s book by Jill Murphy, it was really only available on HBO and the Disney Channel, so if you weren’t rich enough to have cable or […]

Originally Posted October 31, 2012: If you know me at all or have ever read this blog, then you know that I love Halloween. And I especially love Halloween costumes. My favorites are always the play-on-words, mainly because they’re clever, cheap, and easy. Like me. But first, let’s take it back to a time when I […]

One of my favorite parts of human existence is how a scent can sucker punch you, sending you on a time-traveling expedition. This a.m. I walked outside and was transported back in England…to those drizzly, mild days of white skies and grey sidewalks in Peterborough. The memory trip was so intense that I could taste […]

I loved the way EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE by Mindy Mejia describes a small farming town in Minnesota and the beloved city of Minneapolis with intimate, nostalgic detail (at one point I had to check and see if I had grown up with or around the author, especially because I even went to school with […]

After The Terrible Thing, I spent the later part of my twenties in the kind of relationships that would only confirm my sense of loss. I lost a lot of good men to the night, to holding myself apart from them. Fear of the known can be much more potent than fear of the unknown, […]

A medium told me once that I had to be careful when it came to sun…not enough during the winter, and I would turn just as gloomy. It was such a small thing – and not the kind of thing you go to see a medium for – that I didn’t even pay much attention […]

Welcome to a brand new recap series, Bachelor babes! Whilst Bachelor Nation takes a Quiet 15 in between Bachelor In Paradise and The Bachelor: Nick Always Gets Dumped!, The Free Form Network (formerly known as The Family Channel, it’s now rebranding itself as the Lifetime version for young women who love top knots, The Bachelor, […]

What’s up, babes! I haven’t posted on here since June. You maybe even thought I died. Spoiler: I didn’t! I’m still living. But to bring you up to speed: Life got really busy this summer/early fall. My best friend Katy had her baby:   It is so surreal to watch the girl you used to go […]

What’s up Bachelor babies! Welcome back to another season of champagne wishes and red rose dreams – hope you’re ready to take off on the helicopter of validation and cry some of those sweet, sweet white wine tears of joy! How to watch #TheBachelorette: 1. Turn on TV2. Find ABC3. pic.twitter.com/si5VGkKcsp — Erin Ruberry (@erinruberry) […]

Listening To: Drive by Halsey Nothing changes. Except what has to.  When I first left Minneapolis for Portland back in September, I felt sure I would never move back. Minnesota was my home, but the Pacific Northwest was my dream. After a 20s and 30s of soul searching and family emergencies and romantic adventures and […]