Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

History tells us that six million Jews disappeared during that war. If there was no Holocaust, where did they go?' She shakes her head. 'All of that, and the world didn't learn anything. Look around. There's still ethnic cleansing. There's discrimination.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.