Of course I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes just like my mama grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.
I was the black sheep of the family and my mother never really understood me.
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born in Jay County to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize but when the war came she was married had a family so she started teaching.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents but especially my mother encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
I always tried to do things by example even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.