Family Histories and Emotional Truths: Healing Thru Writing20220920100006
Family Histories and Emotional Truths: Healing Thru Writing
September 20, 2022#alisonlihalakha, #asianamerican, #christinavo, #emotionaltruths, #eventbrite, #family, #familyhistory, #healing, #lentran, #newjerseycouncilforthehumanities, #onlineevent, #quillhawkpublishing, #saltedplums, #splitupbythesea, #theveilbetweentwoworlds, #vbp, #vietnamese, #vietnameseamerican, #vietnameseboatpeoplepodcast, Writing0 comments
Join me, Christina Vo and Len Tran online October 4th (7:30pm ET) for “Family Histories and Emotional Truths: Healing Thru Writing” hosted...
It’s publication day!20220802235722
It’s publication day!
It’s 8am and I’m in Colorado. The house is quiet and I’m sitting by the window looking out at aspen trees, their leaves quivering in...
Connecting through language20220422091430
Connecting through language
April 22, 2022#bilingual, #family, #language, #mom, #newyorktimes, #son, #wordle, spellingbee0 comments
Language is a powerful tool. It guides and informs us. Knowing the local language helps immensely, while not knowing it can make life difficult. Langu...
Helping refugees, regardless of where they’re from20220419060017
Helping refugees, regardless of where they’re from
April 19, 2022#afghanistan, #displacedpersons, #helpingrefugees, #refugees, #syria, #ukraine, #unhcr, #war, vox0 comments
Refugees are people who have fled war, violence, conflict or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. T...
Helping refugees20210916080000
Helping refugees
September 16, 20210 comments
It’s been a month since US troops pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban swiftly took control. We saw video clips of people attempting to fle...
10 Things I’ve Learned Living in South Korea20210912114500
10 Things I’ve Learned Living in South Korea
1. Public restrooms offer soap on a stick. There are restrooms where you’ll find soap in a dispenser or no soap at all, but blue and on a stick ...
Mr. Miyagi20210820123000
Mr. Miyagi
August 20, 20210 comments
My family didn’t see movies in the theaters when I was growing up, and I missed a lot of films. It’s only as an adult that I’m catch...
Gorgeous children’s book about Saudi Arabia in the works20210624160600
Gorgeous children’s book about Saudi Arabia in the works
I have been collaborating with my friend Karien on a special children’s book. Karien and I worked together in the school library in our small co...
Songdo Stories20210623100000
Songdo Stories
I have lived in Songdo, a small city in South Korea, since late 2019. It’s a compact and high-tech city with green ambitions that was built on r...
Korea celebrates Buddha’s birthday20210519060000
Korea celebrates Buddha’s birthday
May 19, 2021bongeunsa, buddhasbirthday, buddhisttemple, heungryunsa, lanterns, lotuslanternfestival, seoul, songdo, southkorea0 comments
Today is Buddha’s birthday, and Korea celebrates with the Lotus Lantern Festival (Yeon Deung Hoe). We had the pleasure of visiting two temples r...