I have two homes in Malibu a home in Canada that I'm building and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

There are more than 300 000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw in all its horrific detail the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact as of the writing of this column millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

The fact is if we do our job right if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people about their health care about their ability to educate their kids stay in their homes and own their homes send their kids to college the basic pillars of a middle-class life if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country these things will take care of themselves.

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens in our homes in our communities. All health care is personal.