My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act. ' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.
When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.