To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.