The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

A few moments later Mom opened my door and peered in at me. "Logan Hansen is here to see you." If it had been anyone else in the world, I would have told my mother to send him away. Santa Claus himself could have shown up to explain his whereabouts since my childhood, and I would have turned him out.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.