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Your Turn: Stop the Comparison Game

Humans seem wired for the comparison game, and the tendency to evaluate our lives against the lives of those around us only seems to intensify the older we get. As I’ve lived through my 20s and now am closer to 30 than to 20, the tendency to compare my …

Your Turn: A Few Words to the Traveler

It’s that time again: end of summer. New jobs, back to school, just got married. It means people are moving. A lot of change going on. I love moving, starting new things and meeting new people. I moved for the first time when I was 2 years old; then I …

Back to School

I had an exciting thing happen this week. I finalized my enrollment in Liberty University’s online master’s program in strategic communications. It’s been about a year in the making. It’s finally happening, and I couldn’t be more excited. I wrote a few …

Moving Day

Almost nine years ago, I bought a town home. I spent four happy years with two different roommates before I met and married my husband, Kevin. Then he moved in, and we spent our carefree newlywed days here. Next came a baby, and then another. And now — …

Your Turn: What I Wish I Believed at 25

I felt 25 for a long time. I was confident I had most everything figured out, and the things I didn’t just yet, well, I had plenty of time. Thirty is when I would have everything squared away plus a cute mom haircut. And well, 30 is official — official …

And the Next Stop Is…?

My dad is the jack-of-all-trades sort. Since he began working as a teenager, he’s been a deli employee, a telephone installation guy, a messenger in Manhattan, a business student, a draftsman, and an operating room nurse — talk about an assortment of e …

Your Turn: Stop and Smell the Roses

“How are you doing?” “Good…” (wait for it) “I’m crazy busy.” Why is it popular to say we are so busy when asked how we are doing? We wear busyness like a badge of honor and get seemingly defensive if we get out-ranked by someone else who has more on he …

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