I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill OReilly.

I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions.

What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey and wet and damp and dreary that you don't feel you have to smile and percolate as you do on a sunny spring day.