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Amy Allison 
“Black Sheep Rebel”






   Author:  Bio




    

 

Amy was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1954. She attended North Central High School in Indianapolis, IN. She graduated from Indiana University with a Business degree, in 1977. She earned her Masters in Business Administration in 1980 from the University in Evansville, Indiana. 

 Ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil, she wrote lyrics to songs, stories, and simple poems. Though Amy always enjoyed the creative writing classes and workshops, she pursued a career in various aspects of business. Her passion continued to be writing stories, essays, articles, and poetry into her adult years.

 Amy has been published in tabloids Hoosier Sportsman, Hoosier Outdoors, (in Indiana) and a holistic tabloid Branches, (in Indianapolis, Indiana). She was published in national magazine Lotus: Personal Transformation. The introduction of PC’s created a highly efficient manner of putting her thoughts down on paper. Her literary projects can be found at www.rebelodyssey.com. The Rebel Odyssey website was originated in 2003. Here is where she has self-published her writings of five decades.
Presented in this website are her writings…poems, short stories, essays, prose, observations of Life Events and Emotions and Passages. Some are entertaining, some are thought-provoking…others are emotion-filled. 

 

The author has been a Black Sheep Rebel all her life – rejecting conventionality, and following her own rules.  Her writings depict an odyssey, as life is a journey – and not a destination.  The year of each piece is listed usually at the end of the work.  The Rebel author was born in 1954.  Each piece of her writing is a passage in her journey.

 

It is her wish and desire in search of her purpose in this lifetime – to share her experience, strength and hope with her readers. Walk in her footprints in the snow of the winter storms of her life, and warm yourself in the sunshine of the summer reprieves - and both are encountered in the journey of this Black Sheep Rebel’s Odyssey.  The reason for the publishing this website is also a large part of her purpose in life - to reveal who she really is - without shame or humiliation. Revealing our authentic selves to one another, we may discover that we are truly more alike than different.  How "real" are you to the ones you love, or the people with whom you interact?

 

The Black Sheep
One of a Kind   from Daily OM (online)

Many of us have had an experience in which we felt like the lone black sheep in a vast sea of white sheep. For some of us, however, this sense of not belonging runs more deeply and spans a period of many years. It is possible to feel like the black sheep in families and peer groups that are supportive, as well as in those that are not. Even if we receive no overt criticism regarding our values, there will likely be times when it seems that relatives and friends are humoring us or waiting for us to grow out of a phase. Sometimes we may even think we have been adopted because we are so different from our family members. These feelings are not a sign that we have failed in some way to connect with others. Rather, they should be perceived as the natural result of our willingness to articulate our individuality.

Many black sheep respond to the separateness they feel by pulling back from the very people to whom they might otherwise feel closest and embracing a different group with whom they enjoy a greater degree of commonality. But if you feel that your very nature has set you apart from your peers and relatives, consider that you chose long ago to be raised by a specific family and to come together with specific people so that you could have certain experiences that would contribute to your ongoing evolution. You may be much more sensitive than the people around you or more artistic, aware, spiritual, or imaginative. The disparate temperament of your values and those of your family or peers need not be a catalyst for interpersonal conflict. If you can move beyond comparisons and accept these differences, you will come to appreciate the significant role your upbringing and socialization have played in your life's unique journey.

In time, most black sheep learn to embrace their differences and be thankful for those aspects of their individuality that set them apart from others. We cannot expect that our peers and relatives will suddenly choose to embrace our values and offer us the precise form of support we need. But we can acknowledge the importance of these individuals by devoting a portion of our energy to keeping these relationships healthy while continuing to define our own identities apart from them.

 

 

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