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

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

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.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

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

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.

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.