Along with her success as an actor and musician, Mandy Moore has experienced emotional challenges including depression and sensitivity. “A few months ago I felt really low, really sad. Depressed for no reason. I’m a very positive person, and I’ve always been glass-half-full. So it was like someone flipped a switch in me.” She says [...]

In one of her interviews about winning a Golden Globe Award for best actress in her comedy “Ugly Betty,” America Ferrera said she hears every day from girls whose self-esteem is boosted by seeing her on the show. “I don’t really see Betty as ugly,” she said backstage. “I see her as closer to the [...]

In her book review [Los Angeles Times], Regina Marler writes, “Beatrix Potter was a dutiful Victorian daughter who grew into a plain-spoken and determined artist and entrepreneur. She was good, but she was not always nice. Between the lines of Linda Lear’s sympathetic biography, “Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature,” can be glimpsed a feisty [...]

This is an excerpt from a statement on the Freedom Writers Foundation site: Following the Rodney King Riots and the O.J. Simpson trial, the mood in our city was unsettling, and on our first day of high school, we had only three things in common: we hated school, we hated our teacher, and we hated [...]