...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The only way out is to go so far in.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.