 My beautiful grandparents with my two uncles, 1956.  Yang, a chubby baby, 1971.  My brother and I started school, 1978.  Together, my parents were sturdier than the pine and tower behind them.  We were married in Dec. 1995.  Victor, born in 2003.  Fondness breeds likeness.  Mother Statue of Yellow River, Lanzhou, China, 2007.  Brothers, Spring 2008.  Honolulu, 2008.  Victor in a vineyard at Napa Valley, 2008. 
My beautiful parents with my children.  Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2009, with Kate and Ira. | 
My parents when they were married, 1970. 
My brother and I, neither of us could read, 1977. 
My brother visited me at Tongji University, 1989. My mother sat on the bridge in the background. 
I met Qin in Florida.  The geniuses I studied with at the University of Arizona, 1999.  Oliver, born in 2005. Brothers!
In the desert of Minqin, at the end of the road.  At Oakland Zoo.  Attending our friends' wedding in Wyoming. Oliver in front of the grape vines. Seventeen Miles.  We studied with the wise Vikram Chandra. |