Actress and author Diane Farr’s new book, Kissing Outside the Lines, charts the personal and political challenges of entering an interracial marriage. This week in GOOD’s video series, What Do You Love, Farr takes us on a tour of the small stuff. Here are 10 little things she loves:

1 when the babysitter walks in the door
2 seeing the freeway is empty
3 exhaling on the purple yoga mat
4 any class but coach
5 finding my man’s hand in my sleep under the covers
6 being included
7 being cooked for
8 seven hours of sleep in a row
9 my first day in a new place
10 holding my little ones’ hands in mine

The Numb3rs star pens a hilarious memoir about the challenges that await a mixed-race couple.

Love may conquer all, but that doesn’t make it any easier to win over strict Korean parents. In Kissing Outside the Lines, actress Diane Farr tells the humorous take of dating her histand-to-be, marketing executive Seung Yong Chung, sharing her own creative methods (like hiring a “cultural attache”) and those of 20 mixed race and religious couples across the country. Now a mom of three, Diane, 42, talks to Star about her successful struggle.

Q: We all know you as an actress. When did you start writing?

The writing was born from filling in the times between acting gigs. I hated sitting around waiting for someone to give me a job. Over 15 years I just got better at it.

Q: How difficult was your courtship, exactly?

Mine is a very traditional Korean story. My husband’s parents sent relatives to meet me one at a time until there were enough approvals. By the time I met them they couldn’t have been kinder, but I was never unaware that the process was their doing.

Q: How did you handle it?

As my husband said, disliking your child’s choice of mate is part of the process in an Asian family. It sort of became a game – a game I wanted to win.

Q: What will readers take away from the book?

You just have to keep showing up and being the person you are because most of this is fear of the unknown. A change of heart takes time.

Diane Farr

Character: Jill Robinson, is a Grad Student/Teacher’s Assistant who meets Hank while having dinner at The Deanery. They end up going at it on top of the Dean’s desk in his home.

Background: Diane Farr has written two books. The first, The Girl Code, was published in 2001 and has been translated into 7 languages. Her most recent book, Kissing Outside the Lines was published in May 2011 and is a comical memoir on her path to an interracial marriage. Farr also writes for a number of American magazines and has an internationally syndicated newspaper column for the International Herald Tribune. Diane was a co-host of Loveline on MTV for 200 episodes, and made guest appearances on The Drew Carey Show, Arli$$ and CSI. She portrayed the recurring role of Amy DeLuca, mother to series co-star Majandra Delfino’s character Maria, on The WB’s and later UPN’s Roswell. She also played Maddie Hudson on The WB’s Like Family. Diane appeared in the cast of Rescue Me, playing a firefighter for two seasons. She left Rescue Me to star as FBI agent Megan Reeves on the CBS crime drama
Numb3rs.

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Diane Farr can check another CBS procedural off her to-do list.

The Numb3rs vet, who guest starred on CSI: Miami in October, will appear in an upcoming Season 4 episode of The Mentalist, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Mentalist Scoop: Morena Baccarin Teases Her ‘Juicy’ Encore

Farr will play Amy Barron, a Type-A, business-minded owner of a small winery in North California. Joining the actress in the outing are Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia, NYPD Blue) as Amy’s friend/business partner, who is accused of murder, and Kathryn Joosten (Desperate Housewives) as the murder victim’s neighbor.

True Blood‘s James Frain rounds out the crowded guest cast.

The episode is slated to air during February sweeps.

Actress Diane Farr speaks frankly about multicultural and mutiracial love in today’s America. In this interview with APA Compass’s Andrew Yeh, Diane tells us how she fell in love with an American from a different cultural background, how the relatives learned to accept the relationship, how they married, and how they raise their kids. Her anecdotes are hilarious, her advice insightful, and her story inspiring.

Diane writes about her experiences in “Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After.”

Diane Farr is sinking her teeth into some trouble on CSI: Miami.

The Numb3rs alumna will guest-star on the CBS procedural as a popular novelist who gets tangled up in a Halloween-time case, TVLine has learned exclusively.

In the Oct. 30 installment, Horatio’s team investigates a murder with vampiric undertones that appears to be based on a young adult book series penned by Farr’s character. One of the CSIs may even find him or herself bit along the way. (Hope everyone has had their shots.)

CSI: Miami kicks off its 10th season on Sunday, Sept. 25, at 10/9c.

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It is not easy for a white woman to write a book about her experience in an interracial relationship without inspiring a few eye rolls. More than a few when she opens Chapter 1 with a delightful anecdote about picking up her Korean-American husband by making this Miley Cyrus face in what she describes as “the international sign for ‘Yes, Charlie Chan… I mean you.’” Diane Farr, author of Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After, seems rightly mortified by her admittedly drunken conduct. But the rest of that fateful evening’s behavior, which she describes as “pretty charming,” seems equally off. “I immediately said something about Korea being the only place in Asia I hadn’t been yet and maybe he could show me around someday,” she writes, “Seung was so flabbergasted that I knew his origins… that I just kept going with the ‘I feel your people’ theme.” Funny, a stranger once tried to pick me up by seductively whispering, “Are you Indian? I could tell you were Indian from all the way across the club.” I recall being less than charmed.

Kiss and Tell

In her new memoir, actress/writer Diane Farr talks openly about her interracial courtship with a Korean American man and the challenges they encountered in their quest to make their own “happily ever after.”

Many may recognize Diane Farr from her TV roles on Numb3rs, Rescue Me and Californication, or even farther back, as the sizzling young sidekick on Loveline alongside Dr. Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla. Farr was 27 when she co-hosted Loveline, often dispensing cheeky love and sex advice. But more than a decade later, she has emerged as a thoughtful and seasoned voice on, of all things, race relations and interracial love. It’s a topic close to her heart, as Farr, of Irish and Italian heritage, fell in love with Seung Chung, a Korean American who immigrated to the States at age 3, after the two met at anengagement party. They married in 2006 and have three beautiful children.

But before this idyllic multicultural picture could emerge, Farr and Chung confronted a number of challenges as a mixed-race couple, including prejudice from both sides of their families. In her new book, Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After (Seal Press), the actress and writer provides an earnestly candid look at how she and other mixed-race couples navigate these choppy, often intimately painful waters, and contends America is hardly post-racial. But though Farr’s memoir of her own difficulties in “winning” over Chung’s family is honest and often humorous, she’s careful not to demonize anyone—even those who worked as impediments to their interracial union. She explains that it’s often fear and not hate that are the source of parents’ opposition to their child’s interracial match. But she also posits that love is the last prejudice parents openly teach at home, even as they preach the Golden Rule and principles of equity.

In her memoir, “Kissing Outside the Lines” actress and writer Diane Farr unveils the xenophobia and racism that continues to persist in, of all things, the realm of love.

In her new memoir,“Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After,”actress and writer Diane Farr arrives at the same conclusion, albeit with a few more funny family stories and drunken escapades. Farr writes about what happened when she, and others, decided to shack up with someone from a different race, unveiling the xenophobia and racism that continues to persist in, of all things, the realm of love.

“But for all the social progress we have made over the last thirty years in public – in education and real estate, and business and friendship even – forward movement has not fully crossed over into the privacy of people’s homes, “Farr writes in her introduction, pointing out that sometimes even the most outwardly progressive parents recoil at the idea of their children marrying outside their race or religion.

Watch Diane Farr’s appearance on The Today Show above – click play to watch.

Diane Farr — “Numb3rs” star, “Loveline” veteran and FunnyorDie.com contributor — always took for granted that she could love anybody she chose. But when she, a white woman, fell in love with a Korean-American man, she quickly learned a tough lesson: When it comes to navigating the landscape of interracial love in America today, you’re going to step on some landmines. Here is an excerpt from her new book, “Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After.”