When you can’t eliminate contact, sometimes minimizing contact can make a big difference.

The coffee culture has taken something that was once small and simple and turned it into something of enormous import and great meaning.

“Yeah, but” is never good. It’s a disingenuous agreement. An artificial attempt to move on and discount all that was possible a moment before. It’s an attempt to discredit or ignore what was said but to do so under the guise of acceptance, only to move right past it into the land of negativity. “Yeah, but” is the language of those who cry over

Ideally, it should be digital so that you can cut and paste compliments received via text message and email. It should also be easily accessible.

•I want to show Sean, Glen, Danny, and other childhood bullies that they did not win.

We can inspire ourselves by telling the stories of our struggle and success.

Listening to podcasts hosted by comedians and about comedy finally convinced me to take the stage and try stand-up,

I opened the first chapter with this quote from Buddhist teacher and hospice-care expert Frank Ostaseski, but it really can’t be said enough: “Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters

Maybe write a book on teaching.