Alexandria Maxwell

Poet/Writer. Former full-time RVer. Travel-at-home mom. Pursuing an MS in Criminal Justice. Essence of adventure, or so I've been told.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

The teenager bagging groceries today asked if I wanted my bread on top.

I said yes.

He nodded seriously and said, "Good call. Structural integrity is everything."

Then he arranged my bags like he was building a cathedral.

His coworker laughed at him.

But my bread arrived home unpunched, my tomatoes unbrushed.

Sometimes the people who care too much about small things are exactly who we need.

[Tanya Dennis @TanyaDennis]

Having to convince people they’re absolutely vile and despised by God is a terrible way to introduce good news.

[L. A. Cunningham - UPDATES ONLY @laurcunn]

Math Problem:

You're travelling in a van at 90km/hr. Your trip is 280km. Your toddler is carsick 4 times and on average it takes 20 minutes to stop and clean him and his carseat and change his clothes.

How long does it take you to get to your destination?

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

Just submitted my final paper for a class last night and registered for the next class this morning (starts in October). Looking forward to having the rest of the summer to enjoy with my little people. And get my next poetry book ready for a spring publication ❣️

[Courtney Ellis 🎈 @courtneyellis]

Half a decade ago, a faith leader asked our church, “What would happen in your community if your church shut down tomorrow? Would anything change for them?”

We didn’t have a good answer.

We’ve been pondering the question ever since.

It’s transforming almost everything for us.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

Here's the house mostly finished before we furnished it. We tried to keep similar colors/materials throughout the house to tie it all together instead of decorating each room on it's own.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

We installed hardwood upstairs to match the main level, and then sealed it with a penetrating oil. Pro tip: rent a floor sander/drum sander. It made pretty quick work of our house.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

We had to bring electricity to our land and have a well dug. For about two months in 2021, we lived out of our RV while we worked on the house. It felt like a dream come true to finally live on our land in our RV, since we bought the land in 2019.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

It took months of sanding to get the ship-lap to the glowing first picture. The boards I'm pointing to in the third picture took an hour to clean up. Whatever cardboard backing or glue was used before the wallpaper went up did not want to come off.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

After the basement was built, we had to get the outside ready for winter. We're still working on the retaining wall/backfill, but the decks and steps are now on.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

This is insane. Rikers just unapologetically announcing they’ll no longer notify media when people they’re caging die. https://t.co/hVld5NVd7H

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

The PR newspaper article about my brother, and the backlog of autopsies at the ICF. Waiting 2.5+years for an autopsy report that should be finalized in 90 days seems like an abuse of "professional discretion" to me. Esp. since they have all the info they need? Why admit that?

[El Nuevo Día @ElNuevoDia]

El Instituto de Ciencias Forenses explica las razones que provocan la dilación de resultados, como en el caso de Cody Heppner, quien murió en 2020, y de otros 23 casos pendientes. https://t.co/rhI5w7X9QF

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

In order to the build the basement, we had to jack the house up 8ft. It was so cool to watch it go up, and be part of the team lifting the walls into place. What a unique experience.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

We put the house up on a basement, so that added 800sqft of new construction. The house used to sit on a crawl space, so we had to get creative with the stairway from the basement to the main farmhouse. A fireman's ladder is what ended up working best.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

Working on a crime fiction series, and I'm hoping to use what I'm learning in my MS to show both how the CRJ system currently operates and how it *could* operate.

[Kayla Hicks 📚 @klhicks912]

Do you have any book series planned?

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

Yes, but either way it will be the only productive thing I am capable of doing for the day.

[Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere]

I’m not a morning person but give me an 8am appointment ANY day. I’d rather roll outta bed and wing a meeting on caffeine and adrenaline than have eight hours to obsess over every possible iteration of every possible question that may or may not be asked at 4:00.

[amberspeaksup @amberspeaksup]

Careful when you start talking about the “criminals”. 77 million people in this country are living with a record, 1 in 14 kids have had a parent incarcerated. 1/2 of all adults have had a family member incarcerated. Chances are you are talking to someone impacted….

[Secrets from a Prison Cell @cellsecrets]

Society often thinks of incarceration as something people live through & from which they can ultimately be released. But the reality is that time spent in prisons & jails can create a host of collateral consequences that haunt people long after release.

[Alexandria Maxwell @alexmaxwrites]

@courtneyellis I gently got after my 4yos friend while she was at my house. After her initial shock, she said something to my daughter that I couldn't understand and I heard my sweet baby girl tell her friend "sorry, my mom is just like that sometimes." At four!? Isn't that a teen thing?