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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it is in my blood.

My mom loved to sing - and I will go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I do get up and move away from her!

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.

I am a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I do go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.

I was born in Texas and I lived there till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It is someone who's protective. That is all.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I am three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

Most young people have not used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Not that we did not have close relationships with our parents - I am very close to my mom - but parents did not think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

What mom cares about most is that I am happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

My mom can not defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It is a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I have always been a writer because I have always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at Heavy Metal and go Woo-hoo!