What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.