Time Is All We Have

For most of us, the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, has been a mysterious, almost mythical place where the rich and famous went to be cured. Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minelli, Tony Curtis, Mary Tyler Moore, and Robert Mitchum are only a few of the Betty Ford Center''s celebrated alumni.

When writer Barnaby Conrad checked into the Center, he knew that time was running out for him. Now h...