Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will range from "Number 176 vial in Buffalo, New York," to "You were defrosted."

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?