Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

I have so much love that I didn't even know about.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.