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

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

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.

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

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

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.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.