Amanda's writing

What are your natural assets? When you consider what you bring to the table — maybe a literal boardroom table — you might point to your agile mind, ability with words, intellect that earned you a degree to back up certain expertise at that table … Or more figuratively, the...

watercolor by Anabel Shuckhart, 2020 Living in California, I witness a lot of conversations about real estate. Home prices, relocation, asset management, remodeling and renovations … all topics that slide into time with family, friends, and strangers almost daily. Even in my high school, teachers used mortgages to teach math...

What are we supposed to do when there’s nothing to be done? None of us could avert that question this past year thanks to the virus that stopped us in our tracks. Even while our cultural chorus exalting personal power reached a crescendo and the verb “manifesting” abounded to mean...

Mary Mell Roberts Edwards was born in Norman, Okla., in 1924 to J.R. and Leona (Ford) Roberts. After her father completed his education in mortuary sciences, he moved the family to Blackwell, Okla., where he ran Roberts and Sons Mortuary for many decades. In contrast to the family business, Mary...

Here in a time of pandemic is what our Divine One gives us: “Anything uncomfortable that you face, child, is forcing something new from you that you’ve been refusing to try. Did you hear that? Everything uncomfortable is stretching you, by divine design. The global nuisance of a fast-spreading virus...

Dear M’lady … You are so fine in those resplendent robes of silver and gold brocade and braids down to your round ass. You know it distracts them from your cussing tongue when the neighbor has left his double-wide chariot three feet over the line and in your way all...