A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory like a thunderstorm and we all go through it together.

Thank you dear God for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now because I won't feel so thankful then.

Thank you dear God for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now because I won't feel so thankful then.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us hovering averting our eyes and they seldom offer thanks but what we do for them is never wasted.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon where all the women are strong all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon where all the women are strong all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.