• Be Grateful for Sh*t Sandwiches!

    I’ve come to really enjoy using the expression “Sh*t Sandwich” to describe a situation that just really feels like a raw deal. Sometimes it seems like pure bad luck, or it’s a series of “WTF” kind of events, that lead me to wonder who I’ve ticked off upstairs to keep getting served up a piping hot, figurative sandwich, that really made me feel like throwing in the towel. Lucky for me, I grew up learning to be tenacious, shown the silver linings, and why it’s important to not give up. Depending on how one would look at it, I was either lucky or unlucky to learn these things through life…

  • “It Takes All Kinds To Fill The Freeway”

    This might be a silly question, but have you ever really truly looked around you and realized how different we all are? We look different, speak different, dress different, love different…we are all different, but also all the same. And that is amazing. Sometimes we use “Different” negatively and instead I think it just means, there are things that make us unique and set us apart! When I was growing up, I’d ask my mom all kinds of questions about people and why we were different, which funny enough was brought on because my mother got so tan in the summer time, we didn’t “match” and that confused me! At four…