Wonderings
My experiences of living, and thoughts about life
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Nuts
The only nuts i knew growing up is peanuts. In VN, peanuts is used in salads, in jicama rolls, in hoisin sauce, or we just eat them boiled. Have you tried boiled peanuts? I can eat 2 lbs at a time, just pop the shells and devour the beans… This morning, I went to Farmers’… Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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Hay so’ng dum toi
How do I say this … Blood binds you at birth. From the same father and mother. You grow up together, take care of each other more than husband and wife, through thick and thin, sickness and health. You don’t divorce your own sibling. Yet all you can do is watch the segregation, listen to… Continue reading
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One more chance, one more time, today
If I were given one more chance for one more time, I would like to: visit Vietnam, the Ben-Thanh Market, Gia-long Street, Pho Cao-Van, Dalat sit in the back seat of the VW bug, with my father driving home from somewhere. and I looked up at the moon and thought i was the chosen one because… Continue reading
New Day: New Beginning 