I Don't Want To Be

I'm An Optimist, So I Think Everything Can Be Worked Out And Fixed. But From Having Cancer I Learned That Even If You're Even An Optimist, Sometimes You Just Have To Face The Facts That Certain Things Are Broken.

Be Crazy. Be Stupid. Be Silly. Be Weird. Be Whatever. Because Life Is Too Short To Be Anything But Happy

I Think Credibility Is One Of Those Things That, If You Work Hard And You Get It By Standing In The Trenches And Traveling The World, People Realize You're Multi-faceted. Part Of Me Is A Serious Journalist And I Loved All Of The Stuff I Did. And Then There's Another Part Of Me That Likes To Let Go And I Think A Lot Of Women Can Relate To That.

I Can't Remember A Time When My Mom Didn't Work. She Has Forever Been On The Move: A Go-getter. When My Brother Adel And I Had A Paper Route As Kids, My Mom Would Get Up Before Us At The Crack Of Dawn To Drop Off The Washington Post At Different Corners.

When My Shoes Are Killing Me, I Take A Maxi Pad And Put It In The Bottom Of My Shoe. It Is Better Than Any Dr. Scholl's Insert. That Fashion Tip Has Saved Me Through Some Long Nights.