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Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to I Choose Me.

Janine Turner and I are having the best time sharing stories about Hollywood back in the day and what we're

spending our time on now that our beautiful girls are grown. Let's jump back in. I just love that

being at this stage in our lives where our kids are grown and they need us less and we're sort

of stepping into these unknown new exciting versions of ourselves you know like

kind of rediscovering passions and trying things out that we put aside for to put the other

person first what what me time how does me time look for you now these days well have my mother with me so i don't

exactly have me time yes that that's a full-time job she's 88 in her 89th year and uh you're solely

taking care of her yes i'm her sole caretaker uh she's going to go stay with my brother for about 10

days oh my gosh what are you going to do i know well i have a southaker. She's going to go stay with my brother for about 10 days.

Oh my gosh.

What are you going to do?

I know.

Well, I have a South Fork experience. I'm going to this Dallas kind of convention. And I've taken her with me to New York City, D.C., Tennessee, L.A. And I thought, well, maybe it's my brother's turn. but I don't know what I'm going to do for a week without her because I'll worry about her.

But I think that I've written a musical. You know, it's interesting, isn't it? I look back now and say, I wouldn't mind having some career opportunities again. I do love to act. It would be fun to book another role where I didn't have, where I could actually put my heart and soul into it again, like Northern Exposure.

But also I've written a musical about Belleville Lockwood, who was the first woman to actually run for president in 1884 on the ballot.

But she was the first woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court when they wouldn't allow her.

They kept saying no.

So she took it to the legislative

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