This wonderful map of Indochina was made by someone named Lucien Boucher of Paris during French colonial times. Unfortunately, I cannot find a date. I
While our mango tree has only one fruit, look how spectacular it is! Tweet...
A little wisdom from good old Saint Augustine, the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and the alleviation of sore eyes… Tweet...
I can totally relate to Tim Kreider’s excellent New York Times blog opinion piece https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ . I’m going to add “Slacking off” to my to-do
I helped judge the 2013 Hoa Sen Short Story Contest, reading 76 stories written by kids aged 10 to 13 from a number of international
A xe om (motorbike taxi driver) just delivered a bag of Ngu Chau - a bush used in steambaths as a traditional Vietnamese sinusitis cure.
In the process of cleaning up our garden, my husband asked some workers to “trim” my favorite Traveller Palm, which grew outside my office window.
Flooding has long been a problem in Saigon during the summer/autumn rainy season. Where we live, in Thao Dien, District 2, the worst floods occur
As some of you may have noticed, I’ve revamped my website. During the process, for reasons too dull (and frustrating) to recount, my blog was
