Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.