“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen:...” — Bernie Mac Quote

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

Bernie Mac is happy.

I found my wedding dress about a week after we got engaged.

I have never hidden any facts about me, and will shout out my wedding plans off rooftops when it happens.

My sister really drooled a lot when she was younger. For her wedding, I was going to get her one of those lace drool cups that go around the ears.

A wedding is such a girl thing.

There are so many moving parts to a wedding, and I, it turns out, am a bit of a perfectionist.