I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother