What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

Exercise is an unnatural act.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for ...

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

... the blisses of scented proximity.