“One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower …” — Marcelene Cox

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.