All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

'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.'