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Where Does Your Life’s GPS Take You?
I love Starbucks – I just love rich, dark-roasted coffee. So when I travel, one of first things I check for is the nearest Starbucks. I love being able to enter “Starbucks” in my GPS and have it clearly and easily help me navigate in any unfamiliar territory my way to my goal – a venti, iced … Continue reading
Blaze Your Own Trail
For the most part, we are each hooked on approval. We choose what we do based on the responses we get (or hope to get) from others. I get that in school, this seems so important – to be considered by the right kids – to have some sort of status. It is tough to be … Continue reading
3 Important Things to Tell Your Kids (and Yourself)
I find I am so much better at offering advice to others than to myself. It is always easier to see what is not working in someone else’s life than in our own. So I thought today, under the guise of offering some great advice to our kids, to a friend or even to a … Continue reading
Be Your Life’s Driver
I still remember the first day with my driver’s license. I had the ability to go anywhere. Okay, I had to ask for the car. And I had to follow the restrictions on the license. And I had to follow the family’s rules. But I had the ability to blaze my own trail. Soon, as … Continue reading
3 Things Never to be Lazy About…
It is a Sunday morning – you don’t have to work. Seems like a good time to stay in your pajamas, read the paper and slowly start the day. Or hit the snooze button…Slow lazy morning… Some things in life deserve a slow start or less energy. Others require full attention, careful thought and extra effort. Here … Continue reading
You Can’t Make Me
I was in Target the other day, buying clementines (what an amazing year for these little orange fruits), when I heard a confrontation between a mother and her toddler. In a lapse of judgment, she had allowed him to get out of the cart. Now, she was struggling to get him back in. He kept … Continue reading
