My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you're sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o'clock at the latest, I'm in bed.

There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.