Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?