What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us..

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you..

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed..

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold..

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had f….

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not….

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English..

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed..

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up..

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happe….

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don'….

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the cas….

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal..

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age..

There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind.….

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long..

... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know abou….

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor..

many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they….

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine..