Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.