Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.