[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It did...n't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to sim...mer to reach full flavor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love me...ans never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and wh...ether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd often heard that having pets prepares a person for parenthood. That, of course, is ridiculous. . . . I have never worried abou...t [the cat's] grades or ability to make friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configura...tion is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »