He wrote home almost every day. He would always ask somebody to pray for him. ... Mother sensed something was wrong.

I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

When would you stop time, Mother Smith?

I want her home. I feel like she's afraid, and I feel like she wants to come home.

I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother died, my sister came down with cancer and I had to care for her.