You Can Blame Al Gore And You

You Enter Into A Certain Amount Of Madness When You Marry A Person With Pets.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.

You Do Get To A Certain Point In Life Where You Have To Realistically, I Think, Understand That The Days Are Getting Shorter, And You Can't Put Things Off Thinking You'll Get To Them Someday. If You Really Want To Do Them, You Better Do Them. There Are Simply Too Many People Getting Sick, And Sooner Or Later You Will. So I'm Very Much A Believer In Knowing What It Is That You Love Doing So You Can Do A Great Deal Of It.

Every So Often I Would Look At My Women Friends Who Were Happily Married And Didn't Cook, And I Would Always Find Myself Wondering How They Did It. Would Anyone Love Me If I Couldn't Cook? I Always Thought Cooking Was Part Of The Package: Step Right Up, It's Rachel Samstat, She's Bright, She's Funny And She Can Cook!

To State The Obvious, Romantic Comedies Have To Be Funny And They Have To Be Romantic. But One Of The Most Important Things, For Me Anyway, Is That They Be About Two Strong People Finding Their Way To Love.