Reflections on the best times of life, and offering advice on child-raising from the perspective of a second time around.

In this Bannana book I write about some of my "near death" experiences. As Steve Jobs explained, during his seminal commencement address at Stanford in 2005, delivered shortly after he knew that his life was destined to end prematurely, all of life is a "near death experience." Or should be lived as such. Live every day as if it is your last was one of the profound messages Steve delivered that day. Follow your passion, even if you don't fully understand where you are going. Go from one "dot" to the next "dot." They will be connected, in retrospect. I was not in the audience that day. I did...