The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.