If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

It's OK to let your children see you cry.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.