Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up. - Ellen Goodman

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?