Democracy Dies in Darkness

Q: Shonda Rhimes, how do you do it all? A: I don’t.

November 10, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. EST
In Shonda Rhimes’s memoir, “Year of Yes,” she spills her secret for balancing work and family: She has no balance — and lots of professional help. (Simon & Schuster)

Shonda Rhimes — creator of hit television shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” and single mother of three — gets this question a lot: Shonda, how do you do it all? 

“The answer is this: I don’t,” she writes in her new memoir “Year of Yes.” “Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means that I am failing in another area of my life.”