Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

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

Laugh now, cry later.

Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.