How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Kerry asks Americans to look at the evidence. Bush asks people to believe.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.