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I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it is a powerful thing. Whether it is sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I did not anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that is a good run.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it is in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give em to people for their birthday.

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we did not have cable. There was not any admiration of glamour, no, I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I did not think, Ooh, a movie star's birthday! I just thought, What?'

I will never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can not, that is just too creepy. I do not think I can go there.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears 27th birthday and for the Circus album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

I have looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it is time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

I was not very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I am into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I do love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.