I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.