TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Replace the words "have to" with "get to" and watch how the cold rain on your life changes to sunshine.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.