I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.