forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.