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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I'm happy in L.A., but I will live wherever my kids are, and I don't really mind where it is.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.