I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.