Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.