If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

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.