“I need to hire a babysitter for Friday night. I also need to buy myself some adult diapers.”

“Kiera, will we need diapers? I’m grabbing diapers. We should bring diapers.”Over my shoulder I yelled out, “Kellan! I’m sure the hospital will have some.” He didn’t respond to me, and I was sure the trunk of the Chevelle was going to be loaded with enough diapers to cover the bottoms of half the children in Seattle.”

“I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.”

“No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.”

“I admit that sometimes I pick on Religions. I do believe there is a need for Religion for some but also a need for free thoughts within it.”

“I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.”