I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

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.

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

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

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.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.