1. A short-sleeve Columbia fishing shirt is my new uniform.

2. 116 Fahrenheit is hot.

3. When you are 3 or 4, going and seeing a man cook on a Hibachi grill can be the coolest thing in the world.

4. You create what you know.

5. “If you need to turn to an ally for help, do not bother to remind him of your past assistance and good deeds. He will find a way to ignore you. Instead, uncover something in your request, or in your alliance with him, that will benefit him, and emphasize it out of all proportion. He will respond enthusiastically when he sees something to be gained for himself.”

–Robert Greene, The 48 Laws Of Power

1. You want to do what? Why should that be easy?

2. Tragedy changes you, alters you perspective, forever.

3. Wish I would have skipped basketball and played nothing but golf since I was 10. I mean, at least golf can have a lot of value outside of making a career out of it.

4. Let’s be “on” for family too.

5. “It turns out that conceiving and carrying a healthy baby is just exactly like a lot of other parts of life: way more out of our control than we prefer to believe.”

–Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet