I'm So Lucky. I've Met

I've Never Told Anyone This, In An Effort To Run From My Past And Disguise It, I Got Rid Of All Of The Scrapbooks My Mother Kept Going Back To When I Was A Baby. Truly. So That's Why Whenever Talk Show Hosts Or A Producer Asks For These Pictures, There Are Barely Any. My Sister Had A Few, But That's It, And This Was Before Digital. I've Never Told Anyone That, But That's The Truth.

I Had This Wonderful Career And Thought I Would Retire As A Teacher.

We Shop Out Of Boredom, For Release, For Excitement, For A Sense Of Achievement, For A Sense Of Control Over Our Unruly Existences. And Every So Often, We Shop Because We Need Something To Wear.

Call Me A Schoolmarm, But Few Things Make Me Angrier Than People Not Taking Good Care Of Library Materials.

If You Want To, You Can Share My Teaching Refrain: I Can't Want You To Succeed More Than You Do.