If there’s one truth in life, it’s that there’ll always be criticism of what you do. You can’t avoid it but you can respond to it so you feel better about yourself as well as dampen the conflict 

It was late on a crisp Fall Saturday. Harry and Louise were finishing painting the trim on their Queen Anne-style Victorian house. They had carefully researched Victorian color schemes and felt comfortable with their decision. The color they had chosen was a Nantucket blue which they thought would better complement the gray of the house than the non-traditinal dull white used by the previous owners.

As Harry lowered the 24-foot ladder and Louise hammered on the lids of the paint cans, they both smiled with satisfaction at the aesthetic result of their hours of labor.  Little did they know everything was about to change.

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