Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren't impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That's how much I loved her.

The beach is Mother Nature's trail. You can walk for 3 miles to the St. Lucie Inlet State Park.

I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha!

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is dear to me.