My current favorite off-the-cuff lines from emails or Facebook statuses. People are such good writers! It cheers me up all the time.

"Best wishes from a treacherously windy Old England."

"The things I do because I live in a town and have children."

"P.S. I'm now thinking of getting a t-shirt made: 'Blame Fyodor [Dostoevsky].'"

"Getting ready to dye pasta for a preschool teaching project. (Yes, I'm sure the Native Americans used rigatoni for wampum.)"

"Many are called but few are chosen. So maybe we all want to be like the Clash--but few of us are really like the Clash."