You have to find a balance with food in your life ...

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.