We just fight our way through it. But you can't just get up and walk out without repeating the behavior over and over.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

I've never had my heart broken.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.