Sometimes, in our darkest hours, we forget these facts of life that Brianna Weiss so powerfully articulates: You deserve beautiful things to happen to you. You deserve miracles. You deserve to be loved in every way you ever dreamed you could be. You deserve everything you have worked and waited…

I’m receiving a snowstorm of emails and texts from friends of every political bent who are terrified for our future. Here are a few thoughts about the five commonalities shared by people who find reserves of resilience and energy in every season.

Enjoy the moment. Endure the inconvenience. As Tom Hanks wisely repeats in the attached video. This, too, shall pass.

Hudson is faster and stronger at twelve. With a father steeped in the game, basketball has served as a metaphor for many life lessons, not the least of which is the power of an Assist.

We enter the world with a toolbox and time. How we use both determines our legacy.

Everything fades into obscurity. Edifices, trees, street names, are created and endure for a time. Eventually everything changes, is uprooted, and vanishes. In a world focused on what feels important now, keep planting.

I love Opening Day. In Detroit, it’s still too cold and often too rainy. But none of that matters. It’s a new dawn and anything is possible. There’s a magic to Opening Day that transcends the past time. It’s the smell of freshly cut grass mingling with the scent of…

I’ve stopped reading The Economist. Not because of any decline in the quality of their reporting. But because they project the world through a negative lens. There is always a cloud on their horizon. They predict doom and gloom. And they always seem to project the worst possible outcome. With…

We’ve all seen them – headstones standing tall in silent graveyards. Each one tells a truncated tale, a name, a birth year, a dash, and then… another year. But have you ever truly considered the significance of that dash?

The things we do for our grandkids… in the rain.