Balance

Brenda Melton’s friendships are so strong that when a fellow St. Louis native went through a divorce several years ago, she didn’t just offer support—she wrote a book. “Suffice it to say that she needed to vent, and it was through those conversations, some of them very funny, that I came up with U’ve Been Served,” Melton says. “It’s amazing what stress can do to a person, but it’s even more amazing how relationships and a good laugh can help you heal.”

The Naples philanthropist’s tongue-in-cheek tome isn’t a recipe