Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.