I tried to be everything to everybody…. A friend told me that the other day while crying. She was upset the other day and told her daughter that very statement and her daughter said “why who asked you to???” While my friend felt offended and hurt I thought the daughter was actually right. Sometimes we just try to be the go to person for all our friends and family and it usually does not work out. We ourselves become worn or the people really do not need us to do it!!! One time when my son was 5 years old he wanted to ride his bike down a hill and I said NO. My father chimed in and said let him go because you cannot protect him from life. I listened and my son went flying down the street and fell on glass and got cut. I was furious but the moral of the story is I could not protect him from getting hurt in a normal situation. It is good to be there for those you love but you cannot be everything to everybody …..It is just too tiring!!! This above all; to thine own self be true. William Shakespeare

Hindsight is foresight……..if I only knew then what I know now………..I would not have elected Nixon….. I have had to deal recently with people who seem to be in the know now that something is clearly wrong and now they are saying well you should have known …you made a mistake….. I thought to myself (after a lot of self doubt) DUH well of course you know now!!! It is easy to look after the fact and say oh it is wrong. Where were you when it was happening????? I could look back on many things in my life and say I should not have done it. But I did not know and I made the life choices. I say no matter whether it is work or play…let’s say you made a mistake and call it a day!!!!! “It is easy to be wise after the event.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Valentines Day……hearts and cards and ………..everywhere you are reading someone wanting to get a date for “v” day. If you have that special person in your life then you have a standing date. Again here is another holiday which brings out the lonely. Sometimes you are living your life not realizing you need roses or candy but there are the commercials and ads making sure you realize you do!!!! Also it just came to my mind it does not help Valentines Day is in the middle of winter and this year has been especially harsh. You look out your window and all you see is snow and feel cold. So what do you do??? Try to think if you did not need that special someone or the roses last week then most likely you do not need them now!! So wear your red to work and give out candy to your co workers or the girl at the supermarket and have a HAPPY VALENTINE”S DAY I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. Cameron Diaz

The truth……………to tell it or not??? Sometimes this is a question you might have to answer one day. Everyone always has said tell the truth ever since you were a child from your Mom down to your teacher. At first you might tell “white lies” which supposedly are small and meaningless like did you finish your dinner? Then it comes to the bigger things which are actual lies like did you smash the family car? But when is it ok to lie??? Is ever ok??? If we are told white lies are ok because they are small how do we know how to judge whether the lie is an actual lie….because it is too big…..or is it never ok to lie even the small ones????? A friend of mine was thinking of telling a “small” lie at work to help her out of a jam. She asked my opinion all the while telling me it really would not hurt anyone. So this is where I started to think about lying and the truth and whether it is ok to lie just a little bit. No it not ok to lie at all! “The truth will set you free” and sometimes when it seems like the lie will not hurt anyone it will always hurt you in the end. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. Aristotle