When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

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

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

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

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