As we are in the midst oft he football season, I am reminded of how important setting goals are in order to be successful.  At the beginning of every training camp, each of the 32 teams sets a goal of winning the Super Bowl. Obviously some have a better chance than others (a team whose name starts with S and comes from Pittsburgh).

I love maps. Now I think you are old enough to remember a time when Google maps didn’t exist. I can still remember every year begging my mom to buy the latest Rand McNally road atlas. I would spend hours looking at the maps of the places I have been but, also of places that I wanted to visit.

 When we lived in Pennsylvania, I tried to be a green thumb. We had a nice backyard with some fruit trees, and a place where I planted a garden. Well, it was an uphill battle. Even though we lived in the city, we would have all kinds of critters coming to have a buffet in my garden. They loved anything I planted; tomatoes, cucumbers, flowers. I couldn’t get anything to grow. Well almost anything

Did you know I was always meant to be 5’8”? If you were to look at my father and mother you will see that neither of them were tall people. But obviously, I wasn’t born 5’8” (imagine that childbirth). Actually I was born 5 lbs., 10 oz. and 16 inches long. So how did I get from 16 inches long to reach my height of 5’8”? Simply one word, “growth”.