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?

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Success is outliving your failures

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.