Of her own memories, novelist Ellen Hopkins states, "Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet." So it is with Vashti Ataya's "MEMORIES: Chronicles of a Grateful Life." As a military dependent, Vashti's formative years were shaped in rural Oklahoma, Germany, and Panama, places and spaces of extraordinary memories. Her "bottle of memories" from early childhood to young adulthood...