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April 24, 2023
Letters to My Daughter: Travel Tips
So here’s a confession. What I thought I knew about Việt Nam mostly fell by the wayside. What I’m saying is, the trip was humbling. Two weeks in the country and now another several weeks since I came back, I’m still recognizing new ways to see it, and how I can’t see it anymore the...
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I Wrote a Story on a Riverboat in Hạ Long Bay
Hạ Long Bay becomes a looming character to me in my story of Việt Nam. I have never been to Hạ Long Bay until this day in March on this second journey. I saw a landscape extraordinary to me. There were karst towers and inside them were caves. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage site of...
The post I Wrote a Story on a Riverboat in Hạ Long Bay first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.April 13, 2023
Global Village Helps Children and Grandchildren of the American war in Viêt Nam
A most memorable part of the Heaven and Earth Pilgrimage has been the opportunity to see the humanitarian work of the Global Village Foundation founded by Le Ly in 2020.
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A most memorable part of the Heaven and Earth Pilgrimage has been the opportunity to see the humanitarian work of the Global Village Foundation founded by Le Ly in 2020.
The post Global Village helps the children and grandchildren of the American war in Viêt Nam first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.March 3, 2023
A Soldier and a Child
Return to Vietnam. It wasn’t until I found my way down Trang Thi Steet in Hanoi and then to Hai Ba Trung that I found JD Salinger. He was there in translation in Vietnamese on a street with a sign that read Book Street. I was looking for a bookstore, but that’s another story. First...
The post A Soldier and a Child first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 28, 2023
Letters to My Daughter: A Song
I hear a lot of stories in Viet Nam. Some are in song.
The post Letters to My Daughter: A Song first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 26, 2023
Letters to My Daughter: We Also Eat
I’m not one to talk about food since peanut butter on bread is delicious to me. But here is a dish that I truly loved. It’s called cao lau. Maybe I loved it so much because Riko at her restaurant U Cafe Hoi An made me a vegetarian version. It was so good, I ate...
The post Letters to My Daughter: We Also Eat first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 25, 2023
Man Quang School
We travel on Highway I. There are baby rice fields with scare crows blowing. Sometimes they are shirts with the arms wide on sticks. Sometimes the shirts or bags are shredded and the scarecrows ripple with streamers. Le Ly tells us a story of a time of filming “Heaven and Earth” when Oliver Stone met...
The post Man Quang School first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 24, 2023
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
It’s dark in the morning. We have no internet where we’re sleeping. It’s just dark, a little cool, and humid and still. I’ve come to the office of our hotel and yes, I can now write this post to you. I’m thinking of students at Mary and Kara’s English class who know this topic I...
The post first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 22, 2023
Here is Saigon
I arrived in Saigon on Monday. All is well and strong and healthy. It’s dawn on my first morning. This is the sidewalk cafe of the Hotel Continental. Yes, that Continental. We are a few days in Saigon before we fly to Danang in Central Viet Nam. A first event here was a panel discussion...
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