Be Grateful. Life is curious. Because you never really know how fortunate you are until you measure yourself against others. Comparisons are an inevitable fact of life whether you choose to admit it or not. Comparisons can be milestones, benchmarks, notches on your belt, however you choose to describe it, it is simply what it is. Growing up I knew that being compared to this person or that, this sibling or that wasn’t necessarily “correct” but it didn’t stop our parents, guardians, teachers and friends, etc. from doing so. Comparisons it could be said, were inevitable. For example, having an…. [ Read More ]

Give us Your Best Line, and then Give Us a Break. I am thankful because I got some really good advice recently about my blog. [Please hit me back and let me know, dear reader, if you catch the difference]. I’m all about giving props for well-considered advice. Yes, for the most part advice can be self-serving, but if you simply take what you can use and discard the rest, you will benefit in ways that you can’t ever imagine. For me, it’s not so much about having someone tell me what to do, as it is in asking someone…. [ Read More ]