At some point in our lives, no matter how far we have wandered, most of us have probably felt the desire to look back at those long ago places where we grew up---where it had all begun for us. In my case, that special place is Saigon, Vietnam, just before and during the war, back in the late … [Read more...]
Flight of Nostalgia
The Vietnam War played a crucial part in my younger life, directly resulting in my starting over in this new homeland in America. I sometimes relive it, in bits and pieces of memories that surface in my dreams and eventually ended up on the pages of my book Once upon a Mulberry Field. Likewise, … [Read more...]
Mulberry Fields and the Blue Sea
I've often been asked: "Where did the title of your book, Once upon a Mulberry Field, come from?" The short and simple answer has always been: It was derived from the two famous lines in the Vietnamese masterpiece popularly known as Truyện Kiều (The Story of Kiều) by the celebrated poet Nguyễn-Du … [Read more...]
A Beginning
It wasn’t that many years ago that I didn’t even know what a “blog” was. And though I still can’t always remember what the word stands for, here I am, writing my first blog, just another living proof of how fast things are evolving in the Internet Age. So come on the fun ride with me, and together … [Read more...]