Everything's Coming Up Roses.

I have everything now I had 20 years ago-except now it's all lower.

God will protect us, [my mother] often said to June and me. "But to make sure," she would add, "carry a heavy club."

She's descended from a long line her mother listened to

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to

If a thing is worth doing,
it is worth doing slowly . . .
very slowly