There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people.

~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.