Tag Archive for advice

Follow The Rules Or Follow Your Heart?

I was sitting with a coworker recapping her busy weekend. She just recently started hanging out with a new guy and so far things are going great. She’s happy, excited and just plain smitten. I haven’t seen her smile this much in months.

She was sitting relaxed in her office chair, looking up with a smile as she recounted each event with diligent accuracy to make sure she didn’t miss any detail. But she suddenly stopped and said, “It was a perfect weekend, and I’m really happy. But I did something bad. I broke the rules.”
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Does Mother Always Know Best?

I received a Facebook message from a new Sip and Go Girl reader. Chris says,

“…I just want to tell you how much I am enjoying “Sip and Go Girl”!!!  I look every day for the new writings!  I love them all… !  I remember when I first told my mom that I was dating a guy 20 years older than me!!  Her reply, “Well, you were born 40 so you’re actually 20 years older than him”!!!!!   I LOVED that!!!!  As rare as it was, her sense of humor did surface once in awhile!!!”

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Making A Move

By: So It Goes

In the game of chess, you are taught to constantly examine the entire board in an effort to see two, three, five, ten moves ahead. This might work for chess but in the game of love and advice, we forget that we sometimes have to look ahead and see if our well-meaning advice can in any way be used to checkmate ourselves.

I have a friend named Bill.

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