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

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.

Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

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.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.