“As a society weve progressed to a point where it is unacceptable behavior to knock someone down who is acting a fool. I teach my children to use their words when faced with a conflict. Thats what c...”

“As for the young men whose company I keep (Why does it keep sounding likethat?), I try to teach them that every young lady is somebodys sister or daughter with the potential to be somebodys wife an...”

“...the word fine. As in Im fine, its fine, that looks fine, etc. For a man the word fine has, tops, three or four meanings and thats only because of the fairly recent edition of Dang, girl! You loo...”

“Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knowsthat is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by ...”

“America, I know we have our problems. I realize that the scale and our waistlineare foremost among them. Im willing to make concessions, I really am. I drink, and prefer, skim milk. Ill take water ...”

“Our plump predicament comes from the way we think. In America life hasbecome a daily quest for instant gratification. Do we think about the long term? Rarely. We ask ourselves, What sounds good? Th...”

“A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

“Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher.”

“Remember, nothing is ever created or destroyed. Therefore, unresolved emotional pain from childhood does not dissolve by itself. It sits waiting to be declared, and a child is the ultimate vehicle ...”

“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--w...”

“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”

“We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”