Dear friends:

Vicky's mother, Ansie Lee Sperry, is presenting her recently published memoirs, Running with the Tiger, at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park this Saturday, August 22 at 2 pm. She is featured in an article in the Almanac News August 19, 2009 edition, and you can read it online at www.almanacnews.com. I will be attending the author event at Kepler's and hope some of you will be able to as well. Below is some information about the book.

Thank you to all those who have offered to come visit and bring a meal. I am covered through September 1st both with friends here helping out and with one of my Texas friends who is flying in to give care. We will be in touch shortly about how to sign up for future dates.

I am doing very well, just a little low on energy. Vicky and I just returned from seeing my endocrinologist who gives me high adrenal system marks. I'm signing off now because it's naptime!

Diane





Ansie Lee Sperry's beautiful and witty memoir combines passages from her personal diaries, historical research, photos and sketches to portray the fascinating life of a woman who lived in challenging times. Ansie grew up in a prominent Hong Kong family, one of fourteen children in a household with four mothers. Sent to England for her education at the age of nine, she returned to Hong Kong after her father's murder. When WWII broke out, she left her comfortable life in Hong Kong society to volunteer for the war effort in the interior of China. She went on to travel throughout the South Pacific until the war caught up with her in the Philippines, where she was interned in a Japanese POW camp. It was there that she fell in love with her future husband.

Ansie Lee Sperry was born in 1914, the Year of the Tiger.

Running with the Tiger is available on Amazon.com and at Kepler’s Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA.