I really don’t think I get embarrassed all that easily. Growing up as a middle child in a family of six children I survived a myriad of embarrassing mishaps, including skipping into a glass door in front of my entire family. (They eventually stopped laughing and were able to ask if I was okay. ha) As I got older, my skin got a little thicker and it took a little more to really embarrass me. (My siblings continued to find ways–we are all masters. haha) To be truthful, I couldn’t even really remember the last time that I was really embarrassed. Until this week. I have never been a terribly…

While studying for my exam tomorrow morning I came across a quote that I really liked but somehow never noticed when reading through it for class. It’s from Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery: “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” Shop Girl*

I have a good friend who is going through a difficult time, and I’m hoping that this will comfort her as it did me when I was going through my own heartache. Gene, my rock throughout my high school years, sent me this when I went though a terrible break-up, and I’ve kept it and have read it so many times as I’ve gone through challenges and struggles that I pretty much have it memorized. You know that pain you get in your ribcage when you’re (emotionally) hurt? It kind of feels like something in your chest is going to explode. Unless maybe you could find a way to scream…

I found this and thought it was really cute… it’s just some words to live by: Smiling is infectious– you catch it like the flu,When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin,When he smiled I realized I’d passed it on to him.I thought about that smile and then I realized its worth,A single smile, just like mine, could travel ’round the earth.So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected,Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!! Shop Girl*