We SING a LITTLE song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound KIND of WAY.

While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college EDUCATED women - wherever they WORK, at HOME, in an office, a STORE or a FACTORY.

I was a personality before I BECAME a PERSON - I am SIMPLE, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, BEAUTIFUL, lazy and driven.

I THINK there's a YIN and a yang to EVERYTHING.

To conflict JOURNALISTS, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, TRAGEDY is practically an occupational requirement: our WORK requires us to SEEK it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.

How OFTEN we fail to realize our good FORTUNE in LIVING in a country where HAPPINESS is more than a LACK of tragedy.

I MEAN, I THINK in the early days we were pretty... pretty BRITISH in our ENTERTAINMENT leads.

I USED to DREAM of being NORMAL. For me, if Kirk Douglas WALKED into the HOUSE, that was normal.

Yet while on my trip to the Middle EAST, the London bombings occurred. This was yet ANOTHER stark REMINDER that if we don't fight terrorists ABROAD, they just GET closer to our home.

I am a FORMER newspaper reporter turned church SECRETARY turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at NIGHT while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting CONVERSATION with the PASTOR.