One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.