Okay I admit it. I am directionally challenged. This is especially true when it comes to driving.  I routinely go places the way that I know rather than venturing a new way and risk getting lost. I don’t know east from west. And while other people give directions using Interstate numbers or mile markers, my landmarks are not, I 35, or 85, but Dunkin Donuts, KFC and Shoe Carnival. Humm-- food and shoes; I suspect Betty Crocker would see me as some kind of nut. Still be warned, if you ride with me you are bound to go via of the scenic route.

One-way streets confuse me, as do signs on the freeway that warn: ‘Wrong Way; Do Not Enter’. I don’ think that I am alone on this, for how often do you hear of accidents from people entering the ‘Do Not Enter’ or driving the wrong way on one-way streets? Most of the time they don’t even realize this until a car approaches them head-on and they become—well, toast.

However, in other areas of my life I am a different animal. Need a sour cream pound cake for the church bake sale? Or a down-home, ‘so good that it will make you want to slap your mama’, sweet potato pie? I’m your girl. Want to change the color in your bedroom and can’t tell the difference between beige and cream, and think that ECRU is a Japanese vegetable? Yes, I may be a dunce when it comes to driving, but I could easily be a candidate for Mensa when it comes to decorating a home and making hospital corners on a bed.

Still, I am always surprised when I run into people who question that red and purple do not go together, or don’t know a Jabot from a Crescent valance. Where do these people live anyway, in a cave? My thoughts on layering--- cakes, rugs and valances are akin to a good potato chip or a sip of twelve-year old Scotch, I have never been able to have just one.

No one is good at everything. We all have things that we are better at than others. For example, some people have a head for figures and can multiple and subtract without using a calculator. Okay that’s not me. Others can read a technical manual and put together a computer or a desk. Nope, not me. I have a problem inserting parts where they need to go. I hate reading instructions on how to put things together, so I usually have a lot of spare parts left over.  But show me how to do something and I will pick it up pretty quickly.

Some people have book sense; others have good common sense. The unique individual is the one who accepts his or her limitations, and put the skills that they have to good use. So no, I might not be able to find my way of a paper bag, but I can make a mean pound cake.