The ranges are back to back, but they run down three long rows in the hotel ballroom. It's a pretty amazing sight. After about 15 minutes it starts to smell awfully good.

Our advertising celebrates this stage in life and portrays it as a chance for couples to reconnect and try new things. Its optimism really resonates with boomers.

I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

If you want to be a writer, then write.

Look at ticket prices to the Rose Bowl or NCAA Final Four -- they're pretty high, even though those players don't get paid. If it was player salaries driving, the tickets would be much cheaper.

I got to liking doing it, after I'd done a couple of them and they looked pretty good to me, I just kept on going.