Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
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.
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
God never gives us more than what we can carry.
It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.
From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don't focus on all the steps it will take. Don't stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
When in doubt, take the next step.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
Forgive everyone everything.
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.
It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
Over prepare, then go with the flow.
Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.
Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
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