But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.