“My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.”

“Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and PROVED it.”

“When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love and connection for the important people in my life.”

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be…

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”