A glass box full of deep fried chicken heads – Perspective XIII: The Little...
O A glass box of deep fried chicken heads starts my day, courtesy of one of the street-sellers in my small alley as the street-side barbers get their clippers going early. I don’t get my hair cut on...
View ArticleChristmas In Vietnam – Saigon, Invaded Again!
Well, shit. I’m late again. The Vietnamese started putting up the Holiday decorations weeks ago. Never mind that there won’t be any snow or that we won’t even feel a smidgen’s worth of cold. They’ve...
View Article“Rolled Foggy Disposed Ricepaper”– Perspective XVIII: The Little Things XI
If I didn’t walk in this city I would never have seen the sign that proclaimed the title of this post – “Rolled Foggy Disposed Ricepaper” nor would I have had the ability to understand that it is a...
View ArticleAo Dai Festival, a Celebration of Vietnamese Art & Culture
Against a tapestry of colored flags and red silks, one hundred dancers dressed in the Vietnamese Ao Dai will dance to the drumbeats of forty drummers in front of the Center for the Performing Arts in...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of the Cao Dai Religion of Vietnam
Vietnam is the birthplace of the unique and unlikely religion of Cao Dai. A mixture primarily of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, Cao Dai also imports teachings of Muhammad, Jesus, and Laozi, among...
View ArticleAo Dai Festival, a Celebration of Vietnamese Art & Culture
Against a tapestry of colored flags and red silks, one hundred dancers dressed in the Vietnamese Ao Dai will dance to the drumbeats of forty drummers in front of the Center for the Performing Arts in...
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