6 MEKONG DISHES I’LL MISS
Every 16th day of the Lunar New Year, Heart Guy and I travel to his family home in the Mekong Delta to commemorate his mother’s death and celebrate her 96 years of life. This year, he’ll be going on his own as I’ll be at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay talking about As the … Continue reading
New Year Flowers and Fruits
New Year’s about new beginnings. Ten days before the New Year, I trim our “Mai” trees to encourage them to bud. This means picking all the leaves off the trees and then trimming away the overgrown branches so the blossoms that appear can be admired against a beautiful frame. Our largest “Mai” is 8 feet tall … Continue reading
The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…
This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the theologian Hans Kung, author of the forthcoming “Can the Church Still Be Saved?” hopes for a new spring for a fading church. But in the Mekong Delta, in my husband’s family, life flows on uninterrupted like … Continue reading
Lunar New Year
It’s New Year again, the real one just after the stroke of midnight at the end of a Lunar New Year, when the moon’s disappeared to God knows where. This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside). When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around. And … Continue reading
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