Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I...
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there.
I read one psychologist's theory that said "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bibl...
Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinne...
God created man, but I could do better.
In Russia, as I sat there day after day wearing headphones, listening to the interpreter struggle to make our words relevant, I wondered if we could establish meaningful rapport with a nation that had...