There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?

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

Make peace with the past, so it doesn't spoil your present.

Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.

Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.

Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn’t sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.

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.

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.

Rewiring your thoughts won’t get rid of the holes in your life, but it can prevent you from falling in them.

In time, I found out that in God’s economy nothing is ever wasted. All those “dead-end jobs” prepared me for the job of my dreams in journalism.