Garlic is as good as ten mothers.
A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
A good anvil fears no hammer.
Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
Every excuse is good, if it works.
Good eyes don't fear smoke.
The afterthought is good, but forethought is better.
A good appetite needs no sauce.
All times are good when old.
It is good to pay with other people's money.
Open confession is good for the soul.
Prayer and practice is good rhyme.
A good spectator also creates.
A good face is a letter of recommendation.
It's not as good with money as it is bad without it.
A good rest is half the job.
John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed that her son had been in the bathroom an awfully long time and pushed the door open. "He had a pair of my best, sharpest sewing scissors poised, re...
In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone call, the telegram--were marked "For Emergency Use Only." So my parents wa...
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I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not ac...
