Parents often feel overwhelmed in navigating their relationships and making their mark on the world. So sometimes they forget how much of an impact their own behaviors make on their children.

Jewelry wears thin. Flowers die. But cards get kept and gestures remembered. Ultimately, what is important, what people remember isn't the expense but the expression, and it's meaningfulness.

I'm sure Frances Bean will be on the couch for many years to come.

When you go for a change of life -- as in a marriage -- there are going to be some jitters. What you have to determine is: Are the jitters legitimate? Or are the jitters because these two people should not be marrying?

Owning precious metals because you think the world is going to end? Forget it,

This is the third-world mentality. Let's build the Taj Majal over here and forget about all these other things over here.