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

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

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

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.

Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.