When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

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

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

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.

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.