Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.