Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.