“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

–HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE

American editor and journalist, first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

Asking myself the question, “When I’m old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I’m experiencing right now?”

If that moment is something like rocking my six-month-old daughter to sleep while she hugs me, then the

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt—it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.”—Hal Boyle.