I pulled my chemo-battered (被化疗摧毁的) body off the sofa and headed out the door. I had _______ to make myself walk for five minutes every hour. I believed however _______ I felt, it would help me feel better. It would at least make me feel that I had some _______ over my life again.

My doctor, Tiffany, had told me that I had to change to _______ my tiredness effectively. Walking was a key part of my hope for _______ . Cancer had taken so much from me, and it was time to start working my way back. With this _______ in mind, I set out into my yard and began walking around. Each step _______ me. Chemo-caused aching bones made every step _______ . The first five-minute walk felt like a daylong forced march. _______ , though the first week was exhausting, I began to ________ my strength.

After a month, Tiffany helped me set long-term goals, one of which was spending a day at a theme park. After our discussion, I decided to ________ the new challenge. I ________ two extra minutes to my hourly walks every week. As time went by, these became ________ , and my walks grew longer.

As the weeks progressed, I began ________ other program goals, but I still had the theme park to conquer. The day ________ came, and we set off for SeaWorld. Walking into the park, we ________ “Fight Song” playing, “This is my fight song, take back my life song…” Tears ________ on my cheeks, and my husband looked at me with concern. Our daughter saw the worry in his eyes and glanced at me. When we ________ a knowing smile, my daughter ________ his hand and said, “Don’t worry, Dad. That’s Mom’s song.”

In this way, walking gave me my ________ back and changed the way I saw myself!

When I was a child my father taught me five words that I've used all my life---in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I __ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, "Stand porter to your __. "

A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door __ people in or out. Dad would get me to __ myself stopping destructive things---such as fear---at the door, __ saying "Come in" to faith, love and self-assurance.

As a (n) __, before I went on camera, I'd make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in my ability came in. As a mother, when I was __ about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would __ my mind with trust in them.

Of course, there were always times I'd __ those words.

In 1972, my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own __ in North Hollywood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more __ and complicated than we had __.

We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going __. Electricity went on the blink, food wasn't delivered, employees called in sick. Once, a flu epidemic __ left us with no maids (佣人). Fillmore gave me a __: scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded enough king-size sheets to __ the whole state of California.

Then there was the __ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California __. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just __. I stood porter. I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.

These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to __, I just smile and point to the sign that reads No Vacancy.

My younger brother would be leaving for college and I was leaving for a new job in Europe. We only had a few precious months left as a family living under the same _________. Everything would change in the _________.

A family of magpies (喜鹊) _________ in our maple tree. This family seemed to be extraordinarily lively. One early morning, the noise was so _________ that my dad went out to see what the birds were doing. He found a young magpie _________ around the yard, flapping (拍打) his little wings and yelling.

Dad looked up in the tree to find Mommy and Daddy Magpie sitting on a branch and glaring _________ at him. He had to do something for the poor little thing. Dad called the zoo for _________. They told him not to _________ it and assured him the baby would learn to fly on its own. Dad no longer _________ the magpie around the yard. He did, however, watch him ____________ from the living room window, just to make sure a cat didn’t turn him into ____________.

The next day I got a ____________ at my summer job. It was from my father. He never called me ____________. He asked me if I saw Morey before I left home—he named the bird Morey.

Driving home from work, I ____________ it wasn’t only about the magpie but also about his own little fledglings (幼鸟) who were ____________ the nest. It was about my brother and me. Dad felt as helpless as the Mommy and Daddy bird watching in the tree. He couldn’t make us fly nor could he ____________ cats once we left the nest.

I got home and found him looking out of the kitchen window with ____________ in his eyes. I ____________ him by saying Morey might have learnt to fly with very good parents raising him.

Soon it was the end of August. Bags were ____________ and it was time for my brother and me to leave the nest. In the end, Dad had nothing to worry about. He ____________ his little fledglings well. And we flew…