New Day: New Beginning

    2017

    • Glad

      Gladys M. Hargis, deceased May 1993, aged 38. Love and still missing you, Glad! I was planning to look for your grave when I go to Nashville. I thought of you. So I called Joyce tonight, hoping to get some info from her, only to find out she passed away 10 years ago. Larry her Continue reading

    • Banh Xeo

      Banh Xeo (Sizzling Crepe), should not be confounded with Banh Khoai (Happy Crepe). They kinda look the same, taste almost the same with the following differences, according to my mom. Banh Xeo is from the South. The batter usually includes coconut milk. Mung beans is added to the bean sprouts. The crepe is crispy and Continue reading

    • April 18, 2017

      I didn’t want to wake up this morning. My body just wanted to lie there in the warm bed, my eyelids shut tight, my shoulders in pain if I moved. I think my body knew the state of my mind, so it refused to wake up. I could hear the buzzing of text messages but the Continue reading

    • Surely Sixty, Sexy Sixty, Sensational Sixty

      Not anymore the funky fifty. Or the feisty. Or the furious. Actually, I was never furious about anything. So strike that. Sixty, no matter what everyone has said to me, is not fifty. It is a big whole 10 years more. It is being wiser, being more patient, with more pain felt in the joints, unsteady Continue reading