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Betty Ford clinic? Too late. We need to press re-start. From the beginning. Again. No way in this world, this time around. Yes, if Putin, the bully, had his way, he would push all the way to “ends of Earth”. His self-appointed “Great Commission”. He should have been toilet-trained more properly: put the trash here,…
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Even with doomsday scenarios unfolding, we should note that self-imprisonment is also hard to bear. For instance, one of Putin’s excuses for war was “de-Nazification”? What’s that? we had to google it. We thought it had been put to rest as an WWII ember. Yet it is making a comeback, even here in the US…
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Growing up in Asia, I often had to stay indoors, since it was either rainy or dry season. Downpour forces you to activities e.g. reading, singing and playing an instrument. I often looked out across the alley, past a curtain of waters, and watched a Franco-Vietnamese family of 9 playing among one another. Being the…
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President Ford. Pardoned Nixon, brought an end to Vietnam (got us scrambling elbow-to-elbow for a space on a Saigon blood-stained barge). Since when does number 3, unelected by popular votes, preside over the fate of a nation and the world. On this Presidents’ Day weekend, we celebrate their memories. Chevy Chase used to play President…
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With all that has been going on, that’s what we need: un-clogging. It’s Friday. Folks are into “Happy Friday”, “Happy Hour” etc… But it’s not at this time. The funny thing about Ukraine is that US is more worried e.g. will inflation get worse, how about BA2.0 (new Omicron variant) and Wall Street is rattled.…
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How many sightings we wished we had not seen? Top of mind: money tossed to the seas (regime toppled), the prideful look of the alley bully after knocking me down? a lingering goodbye at the airport gate. The one we have not seen, yet longed to see and will never see: our own faces. How…
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Our upbringing, at least mine, were geared toward survival; on foods, clothing and shelter; Maslow the whole scale through (with security, self-esteem, love and self-actualize after that). Growing up in war times, we did not need Maslow to tell us what’s next. But in our household, we were taught to look out not just for…
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By the time I arrived, my refugee family had settled in and segregated from the look of family album: father and son (left page) mother and daughter (right page). Drifted South-ward, to Saigon. Then an aggressive swimmer (as oppose to lazy sperm/swimmer) met an egg that dropped. Hello it’s Me. Then later, another aggressive swimmer,…
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Not just doctors who took that Hippocratic oath (to heal the sick and dying). We’re supposed to be good neighbor, to at least, close their eyes if the dead, on their own, couldn’t. It’s human. It’s bare minimum. But then, we keep re-inventing ourselves, then re-inventing some more until one day, even we are strangers…
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Saw Mr. Bernstein towards the end on ABC, when I learned about his latest come-of-age memoir: Chasing History. In it he weaved through events, both personal and national, at the Star newsroom at age of 16, typing at 90 WPM ( WPM is now a bygone acronym) while his Dad himself used to work at…
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