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Author: Amy Weir

Amy M. Weir is a public youth services librarian in SW Pennsylvania, and there’s nothing she geeks out about more. Outside of work she obsesses over music (especially rock especially psychedelic pop especially The Beatles), sews clothes, gardens when the weather’s nice, avoids housework, and generally is the poster-child for Enneatype 9, which she attempts to counteract with yoga when she remembers. Her entire family has ADHD. This includes an RPG-and-firearms-geek husband who asked her out by playing a Paladin-in-Shining-Armor devoted to serving her character in D&D; a vehicles-and-video-game-geek 14yo named after a hobbit; an art-and-animation-geek 12yo named after a SFF writer; and an Imaginary Husband named Martin Freeman, who isn’t actually aware of this relationship.
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A Is for the Asexual Spectrum

June 16, 2019June 15, 2019Amy Weir1

A bit of explanation toward an often-misunderstood sexuality.

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Kindred Spirits for the Quiet Attention-Deficient Girl

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019Amy Weir1

I envied and admired characters like Anne Shirley not because they were different from me, but because they WERE me… but out loud. I was Anne on the inside.

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Confessions of an Angry Fangirl

May 22, 2019May 21, 2019Amy Weir

It finally happened: a creator made a statement that contradicted my own headcanon, and now I’m fuming like the great hypocrite I am. What’s UP with this?

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What Has Become of Oldies Radio?

May 16, 2019May 15, 2019Amy Weir4

Where can you turn on the dial to get the music from the early years of rock? Why do radio stations think people only listen to music from their own lifetimes?

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An Ode to Peter Parker, My First True Superhero Love

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019Amy Weir

In which watching ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ reminds Amy why she started loving superheroes in the first place.

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The ‘Endgame’ Easter Egg That Made My Whole Week (At Least)

May 3, 2019May 14, 2019Amy Weir4

Spoilers! I can’t tell you what this is about here because my surprise was part of the joy! But maybe I’ll say… it’s for TV fans.

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Many Flavors of Neurodivergence

April 29, 2019April 28, 2019Amy Weir

Many mental conditions have overlapping symptoms, whether neurodiergence or mental illness, and sometimes it can be hard to pinpoint exactly what condition or conditions need to be addressed in a person.

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Musings on Tweens and Pre-Teens

April 19, 2019April 18, 2019Amy Weir

Amy ponders having two tweens, what they’ve outgrown and what they still fall back on.

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Skype With Fran Wilde

April 2, 2019September 9, 2019Amy Weir

See Fran Wilde discuss her new book ‘Riverland’ with some young fans over Skype, and enter to win your own virtual author visit with Fran!

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Fran Wilde’s ‘Riverland’ Is Seeping Into a Bookstore Near You!

March 28, 2019September 9, 2019Amy Weir

Fran Wilde’s latest book, Riverland, is a middle grade portal fantasy about sisters learning to hold their world together (literally) and rescue each other.

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Bored to Sleep: The Understimulated ADHD Brain

March 21, 2019March 20, 2019Amy Weir3

Amy discovers that the phenomenon of “intrusive sleep,” which has hounded her all her life, is actually caused by boredom.

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One Parental Responsibility Too Far

March 15, 2019March 14, 2019Amy Weir1

Why don’t I volunteer with my kids’ activities more often? Because my ADHD brain gets overloaded far too easily.

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Are You Celebrating Celebrities’ Birthdays Properly?

February 28, 2019February 27, 2019Amy Weir

…by which I mean, at all? You SHOULD be celebrating the birthdays of your favorite public figures, because who needs a better excuse to celebrate?

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On left: bespectacled 9yo girl in a Goofy hat and life vest; on right: sketch of a fairy-tale princess gazing out a castle window

A Conversation With My Younger Self

February 18, 2019February 17, 2019Amy Weir

Present Me and Past Me have a slight misunderstanding regarding expectations for life.

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Award Winning Books and the Eye of the Beholder

January 30, 2019January 29, 2019Amy Weir

The 2019 ALA Youth Media Awards were just announced, and there were a lot of different ways they could have gone. But that’s the fun of it!

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I’m Not Bad at Math, Just Math Homework

January 18, 2019January 17, 2019Amy Weir1

Maybe math phobia can be avoided by changing the way we think about it, teach it, or at least assign it for homework.

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Maker-Hoarding: An Excess of Possibilities

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019Amy Weir3

A crafty mind can make junk-purging difficult, when even the most “useless” garbage presents its many possible other uses to you.

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The Traditional New Year’s Eve Movie Marathon

December 31, 2018December 31, 2018Amy Weir1

Why go out New Year’s Eve when you can stay home and have a movie marathon with the whole family?

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When Technology Becomes Traditional or Geeking Out About Christmas Lights

December 23, 2018December 22, 2018Amy Weir

“Electric” implies “modern,” but electric Christmas lights are an ancient Winter Solstice tradition that simply waited for the technology to arrive.

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4 Reasons to Take (Even Your Non-Dancey) Kids to the Ballet

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018Amy Weir1

Now’s the time to find a local production of ‘The Nutcracker’ and take the whole family. Ballet is not just for fans of tutu-ed fairy princesses!

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