As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

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

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

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

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.