'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

'Daddy, there's Victor, only he has more white hairs now.' (about our neighbor 3 doors down who is a regular reader of McClelland Family.com)

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'