You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.