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

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

It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.

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

No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

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

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.