Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
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.
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.
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Forgive everyone everything.
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.
When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
Eating something fresh out of the oven is like a hug you can taste.
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
Your children get only one childhood.
Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.