Days of The Dragon

I have a friend whose photos are being held hostage! Ouch – Digital Railroad has shut its…servers. They are a photo hosting company, similar to Flickr, but serving professionals, etc. So, all those people no longer have access to all their photos! It’s just a reminder to those who use online storage for photos, email, [...]

I need help from my Vietnamese readers! I’m not sure exactly what this dish is mainly because I’m not sure if the first word is “bùn” or “bún”. They mean “muddy” and “noodles”, respectively. The dish doesn’t appear to have any noodles and some of the ingredients do kind of look like soupy mud. When [...]

Thanks to all our veterans, in active service and not – especially to the wounded and those who were killed serving our great nation.

Seventy years ago the first really public and violent assault on Jews was made by the German state. It was a horrible night – hundreds were killed, temple’s burned, people shipped to camps, lives destroyed. It was but a small preview of what the Nazi’s would do in WWII. The rest of the world stood [...]

Been a while since I’ve put up a Parker update…he is 22 months old. He can now count 1-10 in Vietnamese on his own. He can almost do it in English, but three, four and five are tough “My” and “mine” have become regular parts of his vocabulary, thankfully, at this point he doesn’t get [...]