Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do..

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one ….

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was ….

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too..

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and con….

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality..

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary..

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hund….

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, ….

I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. T….