Childhood reading is so important.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.