Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.