Starting over

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
- Maria Robinson

It's amazing how much I learned as my kids grew up

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Many happy returns

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
-Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

The promise

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them - it was that promise.
- Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth