I'm not quite sure what the occasion was in this photo --- I know we were shooting the Crystal Ball when ABC surprised us with a cake on the set. Could it have been AMC's 7000th show? I remember this much --- the cake was DEE-LISH-US!

Pine Valley's annual Crystal Ball is usually the most festive night of the year! Here, my daughter Anni-Ming hides under my skirt during a five-minute break from shooting.

The parties in Pine Valley look like fun, don't they? Well, they are for the most part, but they can take hours and hours -- sometimes days and days to shoot!! In this vintage photo, you can see how lucky I have been to share the idle time between takes with terrific folks like Cady McClain (Dixie) and James Patrick Stuart (Will).