Cathy Guisewite

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.