many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

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

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

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.

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.