Facts About My Chinese Life:

- My mother was forced to leave her children in China, after being divorced to a barbarian.

- My siblings and I were from my mother's second marriage in the states.

- When my mother grew ill to the point where she will face death, I promised her that i would take her to China and reunite her with her children she had once left.

-Im in the band The Rock Bottom Remainder along with fellow authors: Stephen King and Barbara Kingsolver, humorist Dave Barry and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. :D

- "Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."