A senator in Washington the other day said, We need you. We need that voice. Well, between working on Everybody Loves Raymond and writing a book, I have very little time. By the time you're 40, the kids are grown, out of the house or on their way out, and you have your whole life again. Everybody's a teacher if you listen. Everything in life comes to an end. I've known loss. I've lost my husband, I've lost friends. When my husband died, I was devastated.