What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.