the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter. i didn't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that because it must have been hard growing up in hong kong to be far away from everything and have a dream and get sick at this point. i thought u is there a story here? that's the way it begins for writers. people think things jump out and we have it in our head. it's the opposite we have nothing in our head. we turn on the machine and praying for some

he was one of the many conservatives, ann culter, lauren ingram, we needed foils for me, and, i guessetting the last laugh since they are actually controlling america now. but yes, grover certainly has not changed. i think he came up with this pledge in high school and has not changed. no matter what happens in the world, we cannot raise taxes, and, of course, getting people to sign a pledge so american, because it's part of that same intellectual sink hole where we get three strikes you're out, and zero tolerance, things where people do not have to think. that's what americans, especially our leaders, are always trying to do, get to a place where you don't have to think about anything, which is ironic, these people claim they are belovers of the founding fathers and the constitution, they'd want you to elect someone who's smart and honest to make decision because they are running the government, not blacktopping your driveway. >> this flurry of pledges the republican candidates have been signing seem to have provoked you this past week to come up with your own pledge. can you describ