People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.