I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Teaching is what I've always done.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Health is very important to me.

Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.

Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.

I am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

I never used to speak at all. I always said Joe is the speaker of the family. I mean, I'd go to events and volunteer, but I was never a speaker.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.

I think when people hear my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.

I am an educator.

I have great friends.

I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.

I think it's important how I come across to my students. I want them to see how professional women dress.

I worry about my children worrying about me, feeling like they need to be the strong ones. It's not the right order of things.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

I'm not a lady who lunches.

We can end cancer as we know it.