Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

My mother is an immensely powerful woman.