I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

I have a husband who adores me.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?