How many times have we found ourselves in situations wherein we wish we could take something back? A few choice words, a scornful look, an awkward handshake, a wrong name, a bad lane change, a premature text, a distasteful joke and the list goes on. What’s interesting, of course, is how we all choose to deal with it once it ‘comes out’, so to speak? Do we Scamper, make excuses, own it, hide, turn red-faced, apologize or simply ignore/disregard that it even happened? We did a lot of ignoring in my family and not a lot of apologies were ever given that I remember, anyway. Not surprisingly then, the same pattern of ‘ignorance is bliss’ would follow me into young adulthood. Also, not surprisingly, it turns out that ‘sweeping things under the carpet’ does NOT work well. Especially in relationships. And so, I have worked hard over the past…
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An Extraordinary Ordinary Life 
Sadly, I was in that place yesterday, paying for it today. Hopefully I didn’t cause too much damage😟. The good news is that I took the message from the mess and and learned from the experience.
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