There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

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.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

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

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.