After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.

I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

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.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.