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• Silver linings

  After spending an hour and 15 minutes in a traffic jam between District 2 and District 7, I was pretty cranky. To make matters worse, my squirmy four-year-old son was in the car, and I was late for an appointment with my eye doctor. I was about to lose it when I looked out of [...]

• It fits!

  This is what happens when you take a four-year-old shopping for lingerie…

• Thien Nhan

  Four years ago, I heard about a baby boy who’d lost his right leg and most of his genitals after being abandoned at birth in a jungle in Central Vietnam and mauled by wild animals. At the time, my first son was three months old. The contrast between my little boy - whose birth was [...]

• Cyclops

  I’ve been in San Francisco undergoing eye surgery to repair a hole in my eye socket, which was caused when a surgeon’s drill slipped during a “simple” sinus procedure last year. Nine days post-op I feel pretty good, although I’m not actually supposed to be on the computer. It’s really hard staying off it! I’m [...]

• How stories start

  On a busy street in Saigon’s District 1 I spied this pair of lady’s shoes placed neatly on the sidewalk. Passerby paid the shoes no attention. I couldn’t help but wonder how those shoes had ended up there. Had they dropped out of someone’s bag? Had their owner had a motorbike accident? It’s moments like [...]