Approaching The Treadmill I Tell Myself, 'okay,

I Think All Of Us Have Our Inner 13-year-old A Lot Closer To The Surface Than We're Willing To Admit Even To Ourselves.

I Mean, I Didn't Ever Watch 'gilligan's Island' And Think, 'those People Are Actors.' I Lived In West Virginia. Hollywood Just Felt Like This Total Other Universe.

My Mom Gave Me A Good Piece Of Advice. She Said Never Marry A Man Thinking You Can Change Him, And I Think That Starts From Your First Date When You're In The Seventh Grade Onwards. Women Are Fixers So We Have To Just Not Fix. Don't Fix.

My Parents Started With Very Little And Were The Only Ones In Their Families To Graduate From College. As Parents, They Focused On Education, But Did Not Stop At Academics - They Made Sure That We Knew Music, Saw Art And Theatre And Traveled - Even Though It Meant Budgeting Like Crazy.

In My Teens, I Was Never Part Of The Cool Crowd.