I Used Drugs As A Social Activity;

I Think That When You're In Your Twenties You Think About Your Future, When You're In Your Thirties You're Raising Kids And You Think About Their Future, But When You Get To A Time When You Are Diagnosed With Any Kind Of Life Altering Illness, What Did You Take Away From It? And What I Took Away From It Was How To Live In The "now".

Instead Of Joyfully Looking Forward To My Birth, My Mother Began Systematically Preparing For Her Own Death. She Was Fatalistic.

Barry Manilow Has Gone From Being The Love Of My Life To Being A Friend For Life.

The Sicker Mother Got, The Stranger The People Surrounding Her Became. I Called Them The Garland Freaks.

In June 1968, Five Days Before My Mother's Forty -sixth Birthday, The World Fell Apart Again. Sirhan Sirhan Shot Bobby Kennedy, Who Died The Next Day. Why Were People Shooting All The Kennedys? Had The Country Gone Mad?