On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.