I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.