Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated.

A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.