My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.