Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.