Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.

If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

After living with Richard, I discovered that men are only good at cleaning stuff they can hose down.