I'm lucky to find a person to share my life, and the best friend I'll ever have.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?