Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

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

Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

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

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