Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

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

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.