Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

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

I hope I have important things to say.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.