My Goal Is To See That Mental

My Son Has Been Known To Throw A Book At The Television Set When He Called For Me To Come Play And I Was Obviously Busy In The Box. But I'm Told That Children Of Television Performers Grow Up Thinking That All Mommies Or Daddies Work On Tv And That It's No Big Deal.

I've Come To Recognize What I Call My 'inside Interests.' Telling Stories. And Helping People Tell Their Stories Is A Sort Of Interpersonal Gardening. My Work At Nbc News Was To Report The News, But In Hindsight, I Often Tried To Look For Some Insight To Share That Might Spark A Moment Of Recognition In A Viewer.

The Courage To Try Something New Makes Me Proud.

My Tides Were Fluctuating, Too - Back And Forth, Back And Forth - Sometimes So Fast They Seemed To Be Spinning. They Call This 'rapid Cycling.' It's A Marvel That A Person Can Appear To Be Standing Still When The Mood Tides Are Sloshing Back And Forth, Sometimes Sweeping In Both Directions At Once. They Call That A 'mixed State.'

I Was An Unusually Private Person - In A Way, Kind Of Insufferably So. I Think I Thought The Celebrity Thing When It Happened Was A Temporary Phenomenon, And I Was Above It.