Mother's Rocking Chair. San Diego, CA. March 2015.
Last year, my parents made the tough decision to sell our house in San Diego. It was the house my sister and I grew up in and a place we had called home since 1986. My mother put down new roots in a smaller house in San Diego and kept many family touches that make a house a home, including this rocking chair. My parents bought this chair for their tiny UC Santa Barbara "married student" apartment in 1980 shortly after my mother moved from Taipei to join my father while he was attending grad school. Two years later it was the rocking chair my mother sat in to care for me and many years later, my sister. I have very fond memories of this chair am happy to report that my mother still uses it today.