I'm sure Frances Bean will be on the couch for many years to come.

Jewelry wears thin. Flowers die. But cards get kept and gestures remembered. Ultimately, what is important, what people remember isn't the expense but the expression, and it's meaningfulness.

Parents often feel overwhelmed in navigating their relationships and making their mark on the world. So sometimes they forget how much of an impact their own behaviors make on their children.

When you go for a change of life -- as in a marriage -- there are going to be some jitters. What you have to determine is: Are the jitters legitimate? Or are the jitters because these two people should not be marrying?

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years.