We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.