When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

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

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

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.

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

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.