One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.
I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.
