It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.