By Tran Mai Anh Don’t leave an empty space in your heart. Sometimes saying “thank you” seems inadequate, especially after the days when my mother and I received so much love. Many people sent messages, shared articles, and recalled the long journey Thiện Nhân and his family traveled. Every word touched my heart deeply. I […]
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: HOW TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT YOUR PARENTS Today Metro Writers is announcing our new campaign based on my new book, Chuyện Bố Mẹ Chưa Kể – translated from English into Vietnamese and edited by my close friend and colleague Tran Mai Anh. Our unique campaign for the new year celebrates 50 years
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Christmas, like Vietnamese Tết, is a time to celebrate family. In the culture of Vietnam, there is nothing more important. We’ve all seen how, in modern times, our family values have come under threat. The closeness and joy we once celebrated every holiday has lost some of its power, as we watch both parents and
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When my father passed away in 2010, he was about halfway through writing a memoir. I found the fragments on his old, failing PC hard drive, which miraculously survived just long enough for me to copy the files before it too blinked out of existence. Ironically, the documents concerned his attempts to deal with the
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Think for a moment about the billions of lives that were lived before ours – the lives of our people, the lives of our ancestors, each of them unique, each of them the story of one human soul set against the backdrop of a certain time and a certain place. Each of those people once
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If you’ve ever thought about the future, you may wonder what things will be like after you’ve gone and whether or not you’ll be remembered. Perhaps you’ve led an ordinary life, or perhaps you’ve achieved extraordinary things—but regardless of how you’ve lived, one thing’s for certain: almost everything you’ve lived for will one day be
