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

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

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.

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.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

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

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.