Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.