I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to BED. Those are GOOD reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

Being a MOTHER is a LITTLE like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and again and yet again - and it's watching it all get undone again and again and yet again. It's HUMBLING, monotonous, mind-numbing, and solitary.

What has become clear to MANY Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with MONEY from CORPORATIONS and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its DEATH bed, gasping for life.

The WORK of Nigeria is not COMPLETE for as LONG as there is any one NIGERIAN who goes to bed on EMPTY stomach.

The first FALL of SNOW is not only an event, it is a magical event. You GO to bed in one kind of a WORLD and WAKE up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

When I was 15 or 16 - I SLEPT really WELL then. Now I SLEEP on a BED of anxiety-tipped NAILS.

Sophistication MIGHT be described as the ability to cope GRACEFULLY with a situation involving the PRESENCE of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the HUSBAND).

My attitude when I'm in Mexico is I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and I go to bed half done. I don't WEAR a watch. When I live down there, I do nothing according to time. I EAT when I'm HUNGRY and go to sleep when I'm tired.

It's not fun to get out of BED early in the MORNING. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your COVERS and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and ATTACK the day?

You just STAY the COURSE, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. EVENTUALLY it will either come full CIRCLE, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

When you're confined to a hospital bed, there aren't many appointments you can MAKE. You AWAIT visits from FRIENDS and family members. You enjoy the coconut ICE cream they smuggle in. You tolerate the erratic and invasive visits of doctors and nurses, hoping that one of them will bring you closer to going home.

Life excites me-just LITTLE, normal, EVERYDAY things. Getting out of BED. Getting dressed. MAKING food. I find it all EXCITING.

You can lay in BED and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of US THOUGHT, and here we are. We ended up doing all RIGHT.