1.    What makes you laugh?
I love Letterman.

2.    What makes you cry?
Letterman. And all little animals.

3.    What keeps you from giving up or giving in?
My inner cheerleader made up of my mother and father and all of my friends who are enthusiastic.

4. What’s your biggest fear?
I don’t have any fears. The biggest things that I feared have already happened. So what’s to fear? My mother’s gone, my father’s gone and my son’s gone. You get to the point where you’ve already been there, done that.

5.    What’s your biggest regret?
That I didn’t keep that property in Big Sur. Although on reflection, perhaps that shouldn’t be a regret at all. Who knows how far it might have plunged in the various and sundry ups and downs of real estate? I actually made a profit on it when I sold it.

6.    What’s the most useful thing you’ve learned?
To keep going.

7.    What’s your idea of serenity?
Coffee in the morning, talking to a friend, playing with all my cats – the three little ones and the one big one: my husband.

8.    What events, arts, or skills make you believe that the human race can be touched with greatness?
People who can whip a school population into shape and make them get good grades, and have fun.

9.    What qualities do you appreciate most in a friend?
Humor.

10.    What would you not want to live without?
Fage Yogurt.

11.    What historical or fictional character would you be willing to have as a roommate?
Flannery O’Connor. She taught a chicken to walk backwards.

12.    What single special power (magical or physical) would you want most?
To be able to sing. Tonight. You have to renew your faith every day.

Check out Judy’s latest CD: “Paradise,” and her children’s picture book: “Over the Rainbow.”