April 2011
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Hue Festival 2011, celebrating local cuisine and the art of bonsai!  [i.e. celebrating my hai lua soul.] Here’s the delicious schedule from the website.  Come visit if you can (you know, with one day’s notice.) Principal venues: Gastronomy spaces for the North, the South and Hue’s Cuisines and display of bonsai: inaugurated from 5.00 PM, April 29th 2011 at the front yard of the...
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Since everyone’s birthday in Vietnam occurs during Tet (the new year), my 25th birthday seemed just like any other ordinary Hue day of sitting, drinking coffee, eating food, and then repeat x3.  However, it was an ordinary day full of reminders of how lucky I am to be here with my kids.  Oh, the joy they bring to my life. The unexpected, more indulgent, Western celebration of my 25th year...
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Today, I no longer only dress like an old man, but I live and breathe and embrace everything old man. [Am I still in character?  I forget.  Wait, where am I?]
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Hi again, Andy.
Sitting in a nearly empty L’Usine cafe, Beth Gibbons’ “Mysteries” crept up quietly on the cafe’s playlist. And although my spirit welled up with tears, my soul couldn’t stop smiling,  because I knew you were listening, bud.  
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Oh God.  I’ve worked so incredibly hard these past few weeks… I have no idea when my last day off was.  And for the first time since being here in August, I had a moment of feeling overwhelmingly aggravated and impatient with life and work here.  The things that usually brought me back down to Earth all of the sudden went missing.  My sense of humor, the beautiful Hue tree-lined...
Apr 10th
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