Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.