“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable…

‎”You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen…

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

“My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.”