I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. - Malvina Reynolds

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.