Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows

I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.