Folk Storyteller Pillows

"This next song's about our desperate struggle to please and chronic craving for approval. I really, really hope you like it."

"Well how about that. . . Lady Godiva bought a Harley!"

'It's really more of a family forest than a family tree.'

True confessions.

'He took from the rich and gave to the poor? It sounds like wealth redistribution.'

The Family Joules: Part 21

Sign: 'Welcome to Fernbanks. Beneath our quaint Norman Rockwell-ish exterior beats a big-box chain store heart, ready to sell out at the drop of a hat.'

"Take the off this minute, young lady."

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

"Your momma lied to you, boy."

"When I was young my parents couldn't afford to give me too much, too soon."

Children's Party

Super-Tia makes Mal de Ojo undo its curse!

Chicken Little was correct about something falling, unfortunately, it was an axe, and not the sky.

"No, I don't want to live forever, but I damn sure don't want to be dead forever, either."

'Riley, I think it's time you learned the truth... You're adopted.'

"Oh, she talk a lot...but only about her children."

"If she thinks I'm just gonna come running on home, wagging my tail behind me..."

"Tell us the one about swift justice, Grandpa."

'You were a band geek?! Maybe Max will play an instrument!'

"But our history was current events when you were at school Dad!"

'It is a big day! Ten years ago, yout dad joined the union!'

"Well, I assume the three bears went in the woods like all bears do. May I continue?"

"See those birch trees on the other side of the pond? That’s the exact spot where your mother first called me an idiot."

Wyatt returns home to visit his old small town.

"Grandpa, how did you ever survive without apps?"

"We're not laughing at you, sweetie. We're laughing at something you don't understand."

Snake Charmer's Snake on Strike.

"The last one is Uncle Charlie. He was pardoned in 1987."

"Just go ahead. It's my last day here and I hate this place."

'You may disagree with me now, Son, but when you're 500 years old, you'll understand.'

Brilliance runs in my family, but in a zig-zag pattern.

'If I want to live happily ever after, grandma, do I have to marry a princess?'

"Oh I remember, it was a particularly cold day and your daddy whispered sweet nothings in my ear. It gave me such a warm feeling inside that I knew he was the one!"