Sometimes lessons come to us in the strangest ways.

For 250 years, the freedom ship of America has sailed unscathed over the murky shark-infested waters of the world. This proverbial ship had her beginnings long before the Founding Fathers took pen in hand to write the immortal Declaration of Independence.

I ate a lot of fries in my childhood, but only because I ate a lot of hamburgers. It sounds like the dream diet for a child, except that there’s a difference in taste between burgers and fries that are baked as opposed to deep fried.