Talk about timing. Just when Robin Strasser was about to move into her new, remodeled house in Los Angeles -- "an untouched 1952 California ranch. I was the first person there in 51 years." -- she got a call from One Life to Live's executive producer, Frank Valentini, asking her to return to the New York-based show as Dorian. She took the job, of course, even though it meant she would have only two weeks in her dream house before heading East.

During that period, the ever-accommodating Strasser found a few hours for an at-home photo shoot with Soap Opera Weekly -- and the timing was perfect: The actress's sons, Ben and Nicholas, just happened to be there for a visit. Here La Strasser tells us about the home she left behind....