SPOTTED: Soleil Moon Frye at a book signing and fan meet and greet at the Barnes & Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles, CA August 31, 2011.

You will best remember Soleil Moon Frye from the popular ’80s TV comedy series Punky Brewster, about a spunky, enthusiastic, and positive orphan adopted by a lonely old man. Soleil is still spunky, enthusiastic, and positive, now as an entrepreneur and social media maven. She even has authored parenting advice book, Happy Chaos, published this month.

Happy Chaos is the sign of a family operating at its best-when parents accept that they’ll make mistakes, that there will be messes, tears and skinned knees. Here is an excerpt from the book (Watch a video below of Soleil reading a story from the book):Publish Post

“I was seven years old when I walked onto the set of ‘Punky Brewster,’ a show about a little girl who was abandoned by her mother in a grocery store. I think of it now and smile as I imagine them pitching the series. A show about a kid whose parents abandoned her at the tender age of seven… and it’s a comedy! Then she narrowly escapes being sent to an orphanage… an orphanage!

“This wasn’t a drama — or a novel by Dickens — this was a prime-time sitcom on NBC. Amazing. Even more amazing, Punky wasn’t saved from the orphanage by a mom and a dad with a big house and a backyard. Instead, she and her dog, Brandon, were taken in by a grumpy old man. And together they made a family.”