Whenever I drive between Phu My Hung and downtown HCMC in the afternoon, I pass by a huge construction site where there are tons of kites flying overhead. Some Vietnamese are always selling kites on the side of the road there – and they are always so colorful and cheerful. I’ve been meaning to stop [...]

Okay, I have finally figured out that I can post from work by emailing posts to iphoneslide.com, which is the same service that let’s me email posts from my iPhone. I just send the post to post@iphoneslide.com from my regular Gmail account on my work computer, click a link on a confirming email they send [...]

[*Update: Damn the people who read my blog are smart - or at least have the time and/or initiative to do a Wikipedia search! Anyway, the "Russian" I mention below - "Yersin" - is apparently actually a French guy - Alexandre Yersin - who invented brie cheese. Not really, but he did discover the bacteria [...]

Here are a couple of photos of me teaching one of my Business Case Studies classes on Friday.  The students are obviously captivated by this material and my dynamic teaching style: [*This was supposed to be funnier than it turned out.  I wanted to have some students sleeping, some students texting on their cell phones, [...]

I’m kind of digging the new schedule with my weekends starting on Sundays.  Sundays and Mondays off instead of the normal Saturdays and Sundays.  Number one, Saturday’s pretty easy anyway – I have two classes, but the school is kind of dead so it’s a relatively laid back day and I get a lot of [...]

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*Warning:  Another Long Ramble re Legal Profession/Work-Life Balance Ahead [You probably won't find me linking to much written by the New York Times' David Brooks, but when I read this op-ed piece - which is obviously directed toward Eliot Spitzer - it reminded me of a number of people I've worked for/around over the years.  [...]

First, wow! Thanks for all of the nice comments about my blog recently. Not sure what prompted them – have I been sounding extra pathetic or like I needed some ego stroking or something recently? – but I certainly appreciate them! Everything’s good here. Still working on getting internet access at home so I can [...]

So once again yesterday – Sunday here – Lam Dai made the long drive down from Go Vap District to Phu My Hung for our regular Sunday morning workout. Three weeks ago we played badminton. Two weeks ago we threw frisbee. Last week Lam Dai almost drowned – I mean we went swimming. And yesterday [...]

*Note: This will be my final post about Hillary Clinton. Thank you to those of you who have emailed me to advise me that I may need counseling to help vent my anger and rage regarding her and her very existence upon our fair planet. I think I’ll be okay, but I’ll meet you halfway [...]