Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.

Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.