The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Excuse the mess, but we live here.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.