Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.