In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.