I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

There always have been funny women.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.