When it came to poetry, my father was not an absolutist. Pie was his favorite subject for a couplet, but every three or four weeks... he would write about something else--perhaps a couplet like "'Eat your food,' gently said Mom to little son Roddy. 'If you don't, I will break every bone in your body.'" The next day he would be back to pies -- "Mrs. Trillin's pecan pie, so nutritious and delicious Will make a wild man mild and a mild man vicious."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to ...school. They want to deal with what's happening now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. I've got the nicest mother. That's what I tell everybody. I say I've got the sweetest mother in... the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »