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

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.

It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

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