I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I would like, certainly, to do different things.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

My family is usually the first guinea pigs to try out my new recipes.