I wasn't too happy about the loss but I knew I had to take a deep breath and concentrate.

I'd have to score five average sized weddings just to compensate for the loss of the Speaker's Ball. Right now, there are a lot of questions, a lot of people on hold, a wait-and-see attitude to see what will fly and what won't.

I thought I had him. I was about to get the leg. I'm really disappointed.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.

Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.