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

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Pregnancy is the only time in a woman's life she can help God work a miracle.