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

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in ….

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one..

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be..

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix..

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much..

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is..

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

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….

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks..

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't was….

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make….

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas..

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more ….

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….

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do..

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about..

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it..

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop..

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself..

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be,….