The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
While I'm not a celebrity it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.