This book is a tool that I endeavor to come back to when I am struggling with any major events in my life to help keep focused and not give in to despair.As a founder of an internet parental support group that is now over 400 strong as we deal with brain tumors in our children as we help them to survive a few more days, weeks or months, or as walk with them to transition, have found the stories contained herein to be constructive and helpful. What can you say to a parent who walking with their child on what may be their last days in this world? What can you say to a child as they become teens and find that the treatments were far from benign and will continue affecting them for the rest of their lives? How can you face the day when you know that the surgery, radiation have changed the way your mind works? How can you deal with people when your mind processes the inputs slower than it did before treatment - and you know it? How many years can you cope with chemotherapy and still consider life worth living? How many brain surgeries are right? How many physical deficits are acceptable when you awake from brain surgery? When do you decide that quality of life maybe more important than quantity of life?In spite of facing tremendous life and death situations between palliative care and survival, this book deals with life in little sweets that each have a message that helps one to think positively and get up and keep on fighting to survive.It is easy reading, and most are able to read at least one or two stories - even from PICU as we watch our childs monitors beep out the breaths, the heartbeats, and the feeding pumps crank away - as we pray that we will both see another sunrise.Our daughter survived to see another day. She is now a 6 year survivor of brain cancer in college and we have passed many milestones that there were times I never though could be possible.Tommorrow is not promised - Carpe Diem !(Seize the day)Read it and learn again how to think positively - without too many deep theories. Simple healthy reading for guys and gals.