Your children get only one childhood.

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.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

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

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