This blog is dedicated to my mother, to China and Japan


Miyasan Yumei 1949
Known then as
"Yasuko Miyafuji"


What does it mean…

…to be Miyasan’s daughter?

For so long I had seen my mother through her wounds, her needs. And in my way, I related myself to her through my own. But now, as I’m engaged in a writing challenge, (NaNoWriMo – a novel in 30 days) I find that I’m seeing her in more and more [...]