There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.

There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.

I think we'd all hate to be the one who gets declared undateable by one's entire grad-school population based on a couple of told and retold stories.

When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted - say, to get the child to go to bed so I could have my own time. Just the promise of the time, and feeling that promise slip away, was enough to introduce a whole other element of stress into the encounter.

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better.