I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

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.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.