Here’s to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.

[In] the book club that I run here in St. Louis, people are looking for more than just a novel,

The fall of 1965 was a long time ago,

That person has spent pretty much his entire life here,

This college has touched the lives of literally thousands of so many people in so many ways,

We had been working since last year on a storm plan.

He was the yes-man to Tom Ryan. He had no thoughts of his own; whatever Tom Ryan told them, Kunkel would do it.