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An Osmond reunion

It's been a year since Marie Osmond was separated from her husband and publicly declared the details of her struggle with postpartum depression. Today, Osmond and her husband are reconciled, and she's touring to promote her new book, "Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression."

"We're doing awesome. Just totally awesome," said Osmond. She said many women who suffer from postpartum depression were also sexually abused in their youth. "Abuse of some sort seems to be a common link," Osmond said.

Osmond says she will spend the next year helping her eldest son, Stephen, prepare for a Mormon mission.

Oprah, Maya together again

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey and poet Maya Angelou, two longtime friends who share their most private thoughts with one another, are sharing some of their shared views with the public. "Usually, it's just you and me at the kitchen table, chicken with a little gravy. Now there's an audience," Winfrey said to Angelou as they appeared Saturday in Boston at Simmons College's 22nd Annual Graduate School of Management Leadership Conference.

The women discussed the meaning of mentorship, how friends help one another and how courage helps one forge a path through life. "I think that we are mentors � all of us, whether we know it or not," Angelou said. "To be a sister to a strong woman means you are a strong woman. Only equals make friends."

You're only as old as you feel

Humorist Art Linkletter has his own guide for telling when a person is getting old. "Like when you sit down in a rocking chair and you can't make it go. Or you sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there," the 88-year-old author and television personality said Friday during a promotion for his 23rd book, "Getting Old Isn't For Sissies."

The great-grandfather of 13 said aging can be a liberating and joyful process with the right attitude. "The question is not 'How old are you?"' he said, "The right way to ask is to say 'How are you old?' A lot of people grow old too early because they forget how to laugh as aches and pains make life a bit more difficult."

Actor funds arts scholarship

Actor Morgan Freeman has donated $250,000 to establish a chair of performing arts at a college preparatory school for girls. The endowed teaching position at the Hutchison School in Memphis, Tenn., will honor Freeman's wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, and their granddaughter, E'Dena Hines. Hines, 18, will graduate from the school this year.

Freeman is best known for his roles in "Driving Miss Daisy," "The Shawshank Redemption," and "Along Came a Spider."