Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me.

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.