I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.