With Sprinkles On Top: Balcony Bits

Memory Keeper

"I look at my daughter and usually I see a laughing, happy, healthy child. But sometimes I look at her and I see a thousand layers, a depth I will never visit, and a memory I humbly respect but cannot share. Her heart beats a thousand years story, with the blood of China, and a history in her short life more vast than mine will ever be. I owe it to her to never forget. I owe it to her to protect the fragile pieces of her story until the time comes for her to claim it. "

From my post on Global Adoption, June 2008

Books Read in 2008

"Missing Pieces" by Joy Fielding
"A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" by Michael Dorris
"Thousand Pieces of Gold" by RuthAnne Lum McCunn
"Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller
"Email: A Love Story" by Stephanie Fletcher
"Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" by Dai Sijie
"The Hazards of Sleeping Alone" by Elise Juska
"Grand Avenue" by Joy Fielding
"True to Form" by Elizabeth Berg
"Ideas of Heaven" by Joan Silber
"Peony in Love" by Lisa See
"Banjo Grease, Selected Stories" by Dennis Must
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"The Abstinence Teacher" by Tom Perrotta