When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!

Neither inherently good nor evil, electronic communication platforms are 100 percent dependent on user input.

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

My mum's American. She's from Detroit.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.