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Gee Haw Whammy Diddle

My sister and niece were over the house to celebrate my daughters 16th birthday yesterday and, as usual, […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/01/2015 Random Stuff, The Past

6 Things I’m Bad At

As I get ever closer to my 50th birthday its seems every where I look there is a […]

Amanda Shaffer 11/01/2015 Girly Things, Random Stuff

Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks and the Brutal Truth of Video

There is a moment in every public discussion of race where the topic is no longer the justice […]

Amanda Shaffer 08/01/2015 Current Events, Politics

Check Your Head

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The neighborhood I grew up in appears desolate and broken. Ten miles from where I live, its at […]

Amanda Shaffer 06/01/2015 bias, coaching, Politics, The Past

10 Things I Learned in 2014

I recently saw a picture of Cinderella’s slipper with the caption “If Cinderella went back to pick up […]

Amanda Shaffer 31/12/2014 Philosophical

Now What?

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UPDATE: November 25, 2019 Much remains the same since I wrote this post back in 2014, and some […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/11/2014 Current Events, Politics

Pigs in Space

I have been writing too much for the last month to write a blog post in case that’s […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/11/2014 Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

How I Fail as a Mother

We all have moments that take the stuffing out of us and make us question our worth. When […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/11/2014 Domestic, Pages

What No One Tells You About Parenting

When my husband and I decided to have a baby reactions to my pregnancy usually included a story […]

Amanda Shaffer 24/10/2014 Pages

Abortion = Compassion

Anyone who reads this blog for more than five minutes knows I am a staunch supporter of reproductive […]

Amanda Shaffer 15/10/2014 Pages, Politics, Religion

Hard lessons

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I was at a concert last night where the opening act was just dreadful. The young woman, on […]

Amanda Shaffer 01/10/2014 Random Stuff

Fact or Opinion

Over dinner the other night we had one of those twisty turny conversations that kept us at the […]

Amanda Shaffer 26/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Pages, Politics

It’s everyone’s responsibility to end domestic violence

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Every once in a while I wake up with a migraine so bad it gives me black eyes. […]

Amanda Shaffer 12/09/2014 Current Events, Domestic, Girly Things, The Past

“Tell us what you really think”

There are lots of ways to shut down women when they are speaking. For me the one that […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Philosophical, Politics

They Know Not What They Do Because They Know Not Who They Are

I’m working with one of my coaching clients  – I’ll call her Sally because I don’t know anyone […]

Amanda Shaffer 04/09/2014 Current Events, Politics

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