I watched her and her mother decorateI her college dormitory room. Everythingplace organized and arranged, just so. Attractively designed bulletin board withcarefully selected, and precisely cut, colored paper. Pictures and remembrances2throughout of her dearest friends. Drawers and boxes under the bed. Her room nicelyaccommodates not only her clothes, accessories and bric-a-brac, but her roommatesas well. I closely monitor that which I would have, in the past, ignored, knowing thatthis time is different. As her half of the room takes on her essence. I begin to acceptthat her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours. Our room for her when shevisits.
I find myself thinking of when I held her in the cradle of my arm, in the chairalongside my wifes hospital bed. One day old. So small, so beautiful, so perfect, sototally relianta on her new, untested parents. All manner of thoughts went through mymind as I examined her every feature for what seemed to be an eternity4. Timemarches relentlesslys.
She looks up now, catching me staring at her, causing her to say to her mother."Mom, Dads looking at me funny."
The last few days, I touch her arm, her face——any thing——knowing that when mywife and I return home, she will not be with us and there will be nothing to touch. Ihave so much to say, but no words with which to say it.
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何时，我们并末意识到自已曾经或正处于幸运之中，只因它它的外表与我们梦想中的有所不同。事实上，表面的小幸或许正是等待开启的幸运之¨。
——《错过的祝福》
母亲关爱孩子的力式被再次发现、被重复、被一次又一次地传递下去，就像爱存我们的生活中由你传递给我，由我传递给她，再由她传递给她的孩子。因为爱本身就是一种馈赠。
——《亲爱的妈妈》
回想起儿子的出生，我总有辛酸且甜蜜的感觉，可正是那时我悟出了生活中一条重要的真谛：快乐与悲伤并存，且总会纠结住一起；爱的力量足以调谐二者，爱能持续到水远。
——《爱能持续到永远》
当一种情结很深厚、很强大时，它会在言语无法喻指的地文永存，它具有难以言表的美丽。尽管失去母亲带给我很深的伤痛．但母女情结的美丽和力量是任何东西都无法从我这里换取的。
——《母女情结》