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

I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

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