A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. less than 1 minute read
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. less than 1 minute read
There’s a sort of sibling moratorium when you’re establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you’re building a new extended family. less than 1 minute read
It’s one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they’ve got going and to keep their siblings off their back. less than 1 minute read
Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold. less than 1 minute read
Twilight’ is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.;Kellan Lutz;amazing 2293;I finish so many books it’s amazing. I’m also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.;Kellan Lutz;amazing 2294;I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.;Kellan Lutz;amazing 2295;When we’re on set, we kind of joke around, and when we’re rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on ‘New Moon. less than 1 minute read
There aren’t a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here’s one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here’s betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you’re a parent, so do you. less than 1 minute read
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too. less than 1 minute read
