Archive - April 12, 2018

    In the book The Mermaid of Brooklyn by Amy Shearn the rusalka admonishes Jenny: Why does something good happening to someone else bother you? I read that and the world stopped spinning. Because in just a few brief words, the mermaid spirit nailed it.  She told Jenny, a mother of two languishing after her husband abandoned them, to stop comparing. Stop comparing.  This is one tall order.  Today’s world is submerged in a “sizing up” mentality.  Advertisements promote this-or-that over the other, we scroll through albums of friends’ cherubic children and fabulous beach vacations on social media, and not go…