Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.