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.

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

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

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.