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audience. “Jason was at a point in his career where he could take it a lot further than I could,” Gilbert says. “And he did a dang good job.” Find out how to enter for a chance to see Gilbert perform at the Ram Truck “Road to the Ram Jam” concert at Parade.com/country.

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college. I was a receptionist,” says Henson, 41, who also costars in the film Think Like a Man (out now). “I sat around the corner from Colin Powell’s office, but I never ran into him. I just answered phones and filed. It wasn’t anything important.”

WALTER SCOTT ASKS …

Julie Andrews The 76-year-old legend is celebrating the 10th-anniversary Blu-ray release of her Princess Diaries movies as well as Disney and Target’s National Princess Week. Do people confuse you with the roles you’ve played?

Yes; these days it’s usually with The Princess Diaries’ Queen Clarisse. The image of me being ladylike is out there, but with my family I’m a bit bawdy. P Brantley Gilbert

Q: Brantley Gilbert wrote Jason Aldean’s song “My Kinda Party.” Did he ever consider keeping it for himself? —A. Johnston, San Diego

A: The 27-year-old

singer did record it ﬁrst, on his 2009 album, Modern Day Prodigal Son. But he felt Aldean’s version would help the song reach a larger

You and your daughter write a children’s book series called The Very Fairy Princess. What’s behind our fascination with royals? It’s the fantasy—what would

it be like to be that glamorous? And now, with our Kate in London, we have a new real-life princess. But in fact the job is about helping the world and giving. I think princesses work really hard as a rule. Have you ever had any mishaps while performing?

For one of my ﬁrst entrances in Camelot, I had to run onstage, stop, and suddenly sing. A couple of times I just couldn’t get the voice out; I choked. What gets you riled up? Thoughtlessness. And if someone is tough on a kid, that really angers me. Email your questions to Walter Scott at personality@parade .com. Letters can be sent to P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

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Q: What is the status of the houses Brad Pitt is building in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward? —Cathee Kehtel, Silsbee, Tex.

A: Of the 150 solar-

powered homes Pitt pledged to build in 2006 through his Make It Right Foundation (makeitrightnola.org), half are ﬁnished, with the rest due by 2014. “New technology isn’t just for the rich,” Pitt told PARADE last year. Q: Many of Nicholas Sparks’s books get made into movies. Does he write his characters with certain actors in mind? —Zoe, Great Falls, Mont.

A: “I don’t,” says the

novelist, 46. “But I have

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to be aware that my work might be turned into a ﬁlm, so I would never write a love story set on the Titanic— it’s not going to feel original.” The Lucky One, based on Sparks’s 2008 best seller, is in theaters now. For a look at the ﬁlm, which stars Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling, go to Parade .com/lucky.

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effrey Dean Morgan was so beloved as Denny on Grey’s Anatomy that he was brought back from the dead. “I got a call from [show creator] Shonda Rhimes, who said, ‘This is going to seem crazy, but what do you think about coming back?’” Morgan, 46, recalls. “I said, ‘How? You killed me.’ And she said, ‘I’m working it out.’” Denny returned in late 2008 as a tumor-induced hallucination; fans still swoon over his and Izzie’s doomed love story. “Let’s just say I know when they’re showing reruns,” laughs Morgan, who’s now starring as a ’50s Miami hotelier in Magic City (Starz, Fridays, 10 p.m. ET). He talks sand and cycles with Mary Margaret.

PARADE Had you spent much time in Miami before the show? I hadn’t, so I expected it to be like Miami Vice, with guys wearing turquoise suits and loafers with no socks. But that’s not happening anymore. What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

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Duvall plays in the miniseries Lonesome Dove. Where do you hang your hat these days? We found a little piece of land with a log cabin in the Hudson Valley that we love. We’re like Little House on the Prairie out there, getting up in the morning to chop wood. People would laugh if they saw us, but that’s the world I’m comfortable with. It’s an actual log cabin? The real deal. It’s got a big ﬁreplace, two rooms; it’s in the middle of the woods. What do you do on Sundays? If it’s football season, all things sort of stop. I’m from Seattle, so I’ll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy. Otherwise, we might have a bonﬁre or stay inside if it’s cold. Hilarie is a hell of a cook and does this nice roast with a horseradish rub.

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan The actor opens up about fatherhood, log cabin life, and channeling the 1950s Was it easy slipping into 1950s mode? I got into it as soon as I put my skinny little tie on! We think of my character, Ike, as a Dean Martin kind of guy, oozing conﬁdence and charm in public. But when he’s alone, you can see the cracks in the armor. He loves his family and will do anything to protect them and his investments, and that

was something I could relate to. You have a 2-year-old son, Gus, with your girlfriend, actress Hilarie Burton. Does he have your dimples? He does; he’s a mini me. I know everyone thinks that their kid is the greatest, but I’m telling you right now that my kid is. We named him after the character Robert

Do you cook? I do. I love myself a trufﬂe. I can put a trufﬂe in anything and make it good. How many motorcycles do you have now? Three, and I’m always looking for another! I’ve got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike. I did an exact replica of it with Gus on mine. Katherine Heigl said she’d love to return to Grey’s. Would you go back? The chemistry we had was special. I don’t know if it will ever happen again. But if Shonda asked me to do something, whatever it was, I’d be there. I owe so much to her and that show.

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Say you need to fly a plane from town A to town B and return the same day. The plane cruises at 100 mph, and the towns are 100 miles apart. You can make the trip either today or tomorrow. Today will be completely calm. Tomorrow, the wind will be blowing from A to B at 50 mph all day. So it will assist you flying from A to B, but it will hinder you flying from B to A. Which day should you make the trip? —Billy Baucom, Cary, N.C.

What do you think, readers? Take a guess before reading on. It’s better to go today. Why? The wind will hinder your flight from B to A more than it will assist your flight from A to B. Today, the roundtrip would take two hours. Tomorrow, flying from A to B would take 40 minutes (at 150 mph), but the return trip would last two hours (at 50 mph). ®

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It starts innocently enough. A chafing dish here, a set of coffee mugs there. The next thing you know, you’re buried under an avalanche of things you no longer want. If you feel possessed by your possessions, we’re here to help. By Anna Quindlen COVER AND INSIDE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROZ CHAST

I have a lot of stuff. I bet you do, too. Sofas, beds, bureaus, bookshelves. Dishes, bowls, candlesticks, serving trays. Easy chairs, folding chairs, wicker chairs. Lots and lots of chairs. I didn’t have all this stuff when I was young and single. None of us did. It was a big deal to have blinds and coffee mugs. Many of the guys I knew didn’t; they’d tack a sheet over the bedroom window, drink from Styrofoam. My first apartment was pretty typical; I had a small uncomfortable sleeper sofa, a bentwood rocker, a coffee table that was actually a trunk—didn’t everyone in 1976?—and a set of bookshelves. In the bedroom I had a chest of drawers and a desk that was too low for an adult, at which I would hunch over my old manual Smith Corona typewriter, my knees contorted beneath. I had swapped the twin bed of my girlhood for a double bed, which some children nowadays, raised on queen-size beds, can scarcely imagine. I was proud of that double bed. Many of my friends had futons. But then we got married and we got carafes, chafing dishes, and china. We bought matching love seats for the living room. The acquisition of stuff began. One day I peered inside my closet and realized it looked like it belonged to a woman with multiple personality disorder. The bohemian look, the sharp suits, the frilly dresses. Those days are behind me, and I finally know whom I’m dressing: a person who has 18 pairs of black pants. It wasn’t always like this, was it? At some point desire and need became untethered in our lives, and shopping became a competitive sport. It was generally agreed in our family that my grandmother Quindlen was a worldclass shopper, but for her, there was always an object to the hunt: a Hitchcock chair, a pair of Naturalizer pumps. Sometimes I feel as though credit cards have helped us concentrate on quantity, not quality. Plastic is magical, as though the bill will never come due. What do we notice when we drive down the highways of our youth and measure what’s changed? There are the big-box stores, the home emporiums,

the fast-food places, but the weirdest addition are those storage facilities that loom, bunkerlike, windowless. When we were kids, storage was the basement and attic, an army trunk, atop a broken chair. When my grown children got their own places, they went shopping in the top and bottom stories of my own home. My husband says that when you go to their apartments, it’s like a walk down memory lane—that little table we never really found a place for, the coffee mugs that take both of us right back to the era when there was scarcely time for coffee because someone always needed a glass of milk or a story read. My husband has never cared much about stuff himself. Here’s what he needs: a comfortable chair in which to read and watch TV. Sharp knives. A bottle opener. A pillow that, like the Goldilocks story, is neither too soft nor too hard. There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them, you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness. I fooled myself into thinking that House Beautiful should be subtitled Life Wonderful. I don’t know why I thought this, since the home in which I grew up, the oldest of ﬁve, was always pretty topsy-turvy, the dining room table turned into a fort with blankets, the chunk-chunk sound of someone jumping on the bed upstairs. Statisticians say our houses are almost twice as large, on average, as they were 40 years ago, but we all understand that that doesn’t mean the people inside are any more content. Now that I’m nearing 60, I understand the truth about possessions, that they mean or prove or solve nothing. Stuff is not salvation. My friend Susan is my role model in this regard. She and her husband and their three boys have somehow forgone crazed consumerism. They get honey from their bees, eggs from their chickens, venison the way you do out in the country, where hunting trumps the supermarket. Susan and her many sisters have swap meets in which they shop around among one another’s clothing. On Christmas several years ago, her youngest, Willem, was permitted, in his family’s fashion, to open one gift on Christmas eve. The next morning, when he saw his stack of presents under the tree, he said, “But I What to do with the stuff already have one.” that’s not worth saving That’s how I feel, too. For years I acquired stuff, and after a certain SELL IT! point, I can’t say when, I realized Where: eBay and the “for sale” I didn’t really care about most of section on Craigslist it. If there was a ﬁre, what would What: Hot-ticket items on eBay I save? We all used to say it was include cameras, computers, collectibles, jewelry, and newthe photo albums, but with digital with-tags clothing. If you don’t want photography we all have our to bother with crating and shipping, pictures on our computers. My start local and use Craigslist, where cookbooks are well thumbed, but furniture, baby gear, power tools, I know the best recipes by heart and sports equipment do well.

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now, and the bad recipes I’ve either discarded or adapted. There’s a porcelain bird I gave my mother the Christmas before she died, which she owned for less than a month, and which I’ve wrapped carefully in tissue and taken with me from the small apartment to the bigger apartment to the ﬁrst house to the bigger house. There are the letters my kids write each year to Santa Claus, even now that they no longer watch me seal them in envelopes and address them to S. Claus, North Pole, 99705 (which is really the zip code of North Pole, Alaska, not the real North Pole). But in case of disaster I’d probably just grab a few old family photos and the Labradors. I’d be wearing the watch and the rings my husband gave me for the big birthdays. I haven’t removed my wedding ring since the day he put it on me and the priest blessed it. I’d miss the rest, but I wouldn’t mourn it. (Except for the Christmas ornaments, I guess. My entire family is pretty attached to the Christmas ornaments.)

Here’s what it comes down to, really: There is now so much stuff in my head. Memories and lessons learned have taken the place of possessions. Over the stove is the sampler I see while I’m poaching eggs or poking a fork into the pot roast: “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like no one’s looking.” But I suppose it could vanish, too. That’s a lesson I’ve learned by heart, over time, when I wasn’t distracted by acquisition. When I fall back into the old ways, I remember Willem saying on Christmas morning, “But I already have one.” That’s my new mantra, and it applies to almost everything. I already have one. I bet you do, too. Adapted from Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen. Published by Random House, a division of Random House Inc. © 2012 by Anna Quindlen.

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TRASH IT!

Where: The curb What: Items that are stained, broken, or irreparably damaged belong here, along with unwanted mementos that are meaningful to no one but you (like that Little League trophy from 1978). Says Walsh, “Sometimes one man’s trash is really another man’s trash.”

Where: Yard sale What: Furniture, power tools, lawn mowers, toys, sports equipment, and bicycles typically move briskly— though you won’t get much for them. Clothing especially tends to

go for a pittance. Think of a yard sale as a way to have neighbors pay you modestly for the favor of hauling away your stuff rather than as a moneymaking venture, suggests professional organizer Peter Walsh, author of It’s All Too Much.

GIVE IT AWAY!

1. Computer printouts

Army. What about old eyeglasses, toys, or sneakers? Check out Parade.com/stuff for a comprehensive guide to where to send speciﬁc items.

Where: The regift pile What: Unopened items that make good hostess, teacher, or Secret Santa gifts (scented candles or soaps, for instance) go here. To avoid potential embarrassment, label each with a sticky note listing the date you received it and the name of the giver, Walsh suggests. Also, check the packaging carefully for personal notes or gift tags. Where: Charities What: Used-but-still-wearable

Want to declutter, but not sure where to begin? Experts say these items are a must-toss for any household.

clothing, plus unwanted books, furniture, and kitchenware, can all go to Goodwill or the Salvation

Where: Freecycle.org and the “free” section on Craigslist What: Nearly everything (prescription drugs are an exception) can be disposed of greenly through these sites; computers, appliances, furniture, and children’s play equipment—like swing sets and trampolines—are the most in demand. —Hilary Sterne

Don’t let mounds of paper pile up when you have so many digital storage options, says organizational expert Mary Carlomagno, author of Give It Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better With Less. If you really like something—an article, a recipe, a how-to—use websites like Delicious, Instapaper, or Pinterest to virtually hold on to it.

2. Paper copies of paid bills “If you need to prove you paid for something, there’s the Internet, there’s the bank,” Carlomagno says. “Don’t toss documents you obviously need—leases, licenses, things like that—but the Macy’s bills from 1985? Those can go.”

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old video games News ﬂash: VCRs won’t be making a comeback—and neither will boomboxes or prehistoric game consoles. If there’s something you really cherish—a wedding video, a favorite mixtape—digitize it; services like iMemories.com (VHS or ﬁlm) and Southtree.com (audio) can do the job for about $15 apiece.

4. Home gym equipment Even if you and your family work out often, you probably still have little-used exercise gear (like a rowing machine or some infomercial contraption) lurking in a closet or basement. Ditch anything you haven’t touched in the past year— that goes for yoga mats, workout clothes, and water bottles, too.

5. Worn-out linens Throw away threadbare towels and mismatched bed linens in favor of a few well-made items. Erin Rooney Doland offers this simple equation in her book Unclutter Your Life in One Week: Add up the people in your house plus the number of guest bedrooms and multiply by two. That’s how many towels and washcloths you need. Have two sets of sheets per bed—and don’t forget the air mattress or sofa bed.

6. Old hair accessories Is your bathroom cabinet overﬂowing with hair dryers, irons,

hot combs, and rollers? “Unless you use it daily or weekly, toss it,” says Jill Pollack, host of HGTV Canada’s Consumed.

7. Outdated cell phones People hoard old phones for fear of putting their private info at risk; Pollack advises recycling them instead, either through a charity like Cell Phones for Soldiers or a big-box store like Home Depot or Best Buy.

8. Extra coat hangers “For the love of all things environmental, collect and return them to your dry cleaner,” says Pollack.

9. Reminders of past hobbies Your interests change over time, but the things connected to them—that old set of golf clubs, the guitar you never learned to play—tend to linger. Hand these items off to friends or relatives who can put them to better use, Carlomagno suggests.

10. Single-use kitchen gadgets Unless you chow down on grapefruit every morning and host monthly crab feasts, you can dispose of the grapefruit knives and crab mallets; opt for multipurpose tools instead. The exception? “If you use something for holiday baking or cooking, it’s worth keeping around,” says Pollack. So the Christmas-tree cookie cutters get a pass, but everything else goes. —Alex McDaniel

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When a lightbulb in your house burns out, you you replace it with: (a) An incandescent lightbulb (b) A compact ﬂuorescent lightbulb ligh (CFL) (c) A light-emitting diode (LED) (LE bulb

You’re cleaning out the medicine cabinet and ﬁnd a bunch of expired medications. Do you: (a) Flush them down the toilet (b) Toss them in the garbage but recycle the container (c) Return them to the pharmacy

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(a) 2 points; (b) 1; (c) 0. Fuel efficiency decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 mph, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. For every 5 mph you drive over 60, you pay an additional 31 cents a gallon.

(a) 0; (b) 1. Washing your car at home creates a toxic brew of oil, gasoline, and detergent that enters storm drains and flows directly into rivers, lakes, and streams. Most professional car washes use recycled water and drain their H2O into a sewer system, so the sludge gets treated before reentering nature. Many also use 60 percent less water than DIY jobs.

(a) 0; (b) 2; (c) 1. Aggressive acceleration, speeding, and hard braking at traffic lights or stop signs can deflate your highway gas mileage by up to 33 percent, according to the EPA.

(a) 0; (b) 1. Idling for 10 seconds or longer burns more gas than restarting the engine, according to the Environmental Defense Fund.

(a) 0; (b) 1; (c) 2. According to a study from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, when in use for one hour, a gas grill emits 5.6 pounds of carbon dioxide, and charcoal 11 pounds; an electric

grill doesn’t emit CO2 directly but accounts for a whopping 15 pounds owing to the production and transmission of electricity.

(a) 1; (b) 0; (c) 2. For big bashes, buying a keg and serving beer in reusable cups creates the least waste, says Terri Bennett, author of Do Your Part. Aluminum is the next-best choice—it’s lightweight and easily recycled, landing back on shelves in 60 days or less. Glass, while also recyclable, is heavier, which means more fuel is needed to transport it.

(a) 0; (b) 1; (c) 2. Canned salmon comes mainly from wild Alaskan waters; many salmon from other U.S. states are considered endangered or threatened. And “Atlantic” usually means “farmed,” a process that critics assert uses chemicals and unsustainable fishing practices.

(a) 1; (b) 2; (c) 0. Researchers have found that the average meal can travel 1,500 miles to reach your table, says Sam Davidson of CoolPeopleCare.com. You can cut down on emissions by buying local produce (which is usually organic or grown with sustainable farming practices).

(a) 0; (b) 1; (c) 2. Running a fully loaded dishwasher may

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use half the energy and one-sixth less water than doing dishes by hand, according to a study by the University of Bonn in Germany. And research by Consumer Reports found that prerinsing can waste up to 6,000 gallons of water per household each year.

(a) 1; (b) 0. Every year, Americans produce millions of tons of leaf and grass clippings; some end up in landfills. In most cases, leaving the grass on your lawn is not just greener; as the clippings decompose, they actually make the soil healthier.

(a) 0; (b) 1; (c) 2. Superefficient LED bulbs are expensive—you can end up paying over $20 a pop—but they last three times longer than CFLs and more than 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs.

(a) 0; (b) 1; (c) 2. Flushing pills can send them into waterways, says Davidson. Recycling the container is a good move, but it’s best to return medications to your pharmacist, who will dispose of them properly. Next Saturday, April 28, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is sponsoring its National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. To find collection sites near you, go to dea.gov.

Pale Green. It’s time to get more eco-conscious. Start small—for instance, by replacing just ﬁve regular lightbulbs with low-energy bulbs. When you shop, look for products with minimal packaging (read: less waste), and try to shave one minute off your daily shower—you’ll save up to 1,000 gallons of water each year.

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Bright Green. The planet’s health is on your radar, but it’s not always your top priority. Want to take your good intentions a step further? For better gas mileage, use cruise control whenever possible and remove unnecessary weight from the trunk. Install low-ﬂow showerheads and toilets in your bathroom. And buy power strips you can easily switch off when appliances are not in use.

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Fluorescent Green. For an environmental expert like you, it is easy being green. So share your knowledge. Launch a reusable lunch box campaign at your kid’s school in which you ask parents to replace plastic baggies and forks with washable Tupperware and cutlery. Or start a neighborhood carpool for weekend errands—like a trip to the farmers’ market.

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