Every week I’ll be updating The Webb with a little ditty about my most recent blogcrush – a blog that I follow frequently and find inspiration, laughter and deep thoughts from. You know who they are, those bloggers that you’ve never even met but you feel a strange connection…you almost have a little crush on them? These are most definitely folks on my blog roll, and if you are reading and subscribing to The Webb they should be on yours, too

I first learned about Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates when Sam Karol was featured on the front page of Brazen Careerist with her post about men defying gender stereotypes in the online community. I was quite taken aback to look thru her archives and realize it has only been since the middle of May that I’ve been attentively following, it feels like Life’s Chocolates and I should go back to diapers and pacifiers. Like any good box of chocolate’s the great thing with Sam’s blog is that you can’t open it and read just one. You want to keep opening new posts, testing what’s inside and trying to determine your favorite.

I have never referred to Sam by her full name (Samantha) because she says on her About section that all her friends call her Sam. By the inherent personal and open nature of her posts you feel like you are her friend after the first paragraph. Sam isn’t afraid to let people know her beliefs and strong faith as a young Jewish woman, and to be confident enough to make a statement about this taboo topics in the world of Gen Y is an accomplishment in and of itself. Most importantly, however, she routes for the right teams (a huge Pats fan and New England girl at heart, our Twitters can be dually aflutter during any important sporting events.)

The reason for naming her blog is obvious to anyone who had a pulse in the 1990′s, from Forrest Gump “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Sam has been through quite a lot in the past year, and has learned the all too pertinent lesson that you never know what life might toss at you but you still have to find time to appreciate the important things. Aside from being my newest #BlogCrush, Sam was also recently profiled by Jun Loayza for the Viralogy blog as one of their Awesome Bloggers.

If you are looking for an open and frank blog with touches of humor and heart thrown in, then check out Life is Like a Box of Chocolates.

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