"A practical thing is to get out of bed every day and go outside if you can. Get moving a little bit...." — Mary Katharine Ham

There's always going to be sadness, and that's O.K., but I didn't want it to take over.

My kids are awesome.

The way that social media is structured, you get a payout for high emotion, for clickability. And your 40-point tax plan is not emotional or clickable.

After college, I covered news for a couple of years. There were things I loved and hated about it. I loved hard deadlines, watching sports for a living, writing every day, learning all about a new town, meeting its people and learning its quirks.