Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.