From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy