For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.