ART PAGES & LINKS

Peter Helck

Emily Helck's Art Blog

Chris Dagradi

Edmund Dulac's "The Kingdom of the Pearl"

Corinne Peters

Islamic Tesselations

PROGRAMMING & WEB STUFF

Colors that your browser knows by name

My handy-dandy tool for selecting colors for a website

GoogleMaps Stuff

BOOKS & LITERATURE

DebbiesIdea.com -- a friendly little site where you can discuss your favorite books

An incomplete list of my favorite books:

The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin (trans. David Hawkes)
The Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

CHINESE ADOPTION

The website of the New York chapter of Families with Children from China is one of the best sources for information on adopting from China.

Culture Day is a day when families who have adopted from China get together and celebrate their childrens' heritage. It is presented by the New York chapter of Families with Children from China and takes place at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. Our family has been participating off and on for the past 10 years. Here is a site that has pictures from 2005. A lot of cute kids, but the cutest ones are mine! Check out the Pai Luo (Friendship Arch) and the Dragon Wagon. My brother Andy and some of his friends do a lot of the heavy-duty setup and my Dad usually helps too.

FRIENDS

Donnie Cameron and Family

Rick the Missionary

Rick the Guitarist

AUTOMOTIVE

PreWarCar