A Career Is All Very Well, But

To Me, Being Grown-up Meant Smoking Cigarettes, Drinking Cocktails, And Dressing Up In High Heels And Glamourous Outfits.

I Have Spent Much Of My Adult Life Flinching With Pain As I Tried To Pull Out The Threads That Bound The Shadows Of My Past To Me.

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".

I Choose Not To Think Of My Life As Surviving, But Coping.

When Your Parent Is A Public Idol, You Never Really Have A Chance To Lay That Parent To Rest.