Luck Is A Loaded Word

Tired woman drinking coffee at a cluttered desk working late at night while a man works at a computer in the background, with notes and a notebook that reads “Late nights, Hard work, No shortcuts”

One of my biggest pet peeves is the phrase, “You’re so lucky!” Here’s what nobody calls ‘lucky’ in real time: the nights we were up until 11 pm or midnight after performing at a high level at our full-time jobs, raising teenagers, and then doing the second shift, which was building a business when there […]