1. Start taking family walks. It is worth it.

2. You don’t have to become a mechanic, but at least learn how to change a tire and check your oil level. It will serve you well.

3. Sprouts, the grocery store, is like the uncool version of Trader Joe’s.

4. The hardest working people I have ever met have been from Sri Lanka. Mexico might be a close second.

5. Just started drinking a daily probiotic. Does that work for anyone else? Feels like I am somewhere between becoming invincible and wasting my time.

6. “Every breath is a mercy.”  –Andrew Peterson

7. Hyatt Hotels is where you need to be staying. Yes (@HyattTweets) – I am available for sponsoring. And advertising.

8. “Live in such a way that, when neighbors walk by your house months after you’re gone, they can’t help but blurt out something affectionate.” -George Saunders

9. Six days till Halloween, and we just turned the heater on for the first time. I guess we missed fall this year.

10. I do not understand Halloween. It simply eludes me.

1. Producers: Hedge your crop. Quit relying totally on crop insurance.

2. Santa was born in – what is now – Turkey. Who knew.

3. “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” —William Ralph Inge

4. Travel is the best test of compatibility there is—especially when you and your companion are both thrill-seekers. —Geoffrey Kent

5. Volatility and risk management should determine everything in your trading. Everything.

6. Some of my best mentors have passed away, for you can not keep me from their ideas. All I have to do is read their books.

7. You have no idea what prices are going to do in the future. Stop acting like you do.

8. I do not dance. I just don’t get it. (Except with my daughter.)

9. If you want to know someone’s heart, observe that person’s final journey. —Max Lucado

10. “Why do writers write? Because they can’t not write.” I heard that quote again this week. It is so true.