Same Same, But Different
Our trip to Vietnam a few years back included a visit to Halong Bay. A staggeringly beautiful area of forested limestone rocks that...
Cultural Dissonance aka Stomach Vs Food
In preparation for writing the novel, Uprooted, my wife and I visited Mai Dong in the fall of 2010. A lot had changed since Tung's family...
So, Who Started It?
On March 8th 1965, the first American combat troops landed on a beach outside of Danang. It was only the most prominent of a thousand...
So, You've Written a Book?
This story has been a long time coming. I first met Tung in the spring of 2008. Everyone in the family told me that my fiancee's...
