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    Uncle Ho Ngoc Nguyen

    my uncle at our wedding in 2010

    Late last week, just before my mom’s flight from Houston was due to take off, I received a text message from my brother that my mom had missed her flight. Apparently, she had just missed the two-hour deadline to check in luggage (she had already checked in online the night before) and therefore was not allowed to board her flight to Korea. A member of the airport staff was contacted and she also expressed confusion as to why my mom was not allowed to check in. Essentially, nobody wanted to override the airline attendant’s decision, and so my mom was grounded, her flight rescheduled for the following day.

    Several hours later, my mom emailed me to tell me that my uncle had passed away.

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    11 years

    My parents were very frugal people. We rarely ever ate out (“We can make that better at home!”) and we never took exotic trips to Disneyworld or The Grand Canyon. Our…

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    10 years

    I have been dreading today. I have written, deleted, and rewritten this post about a million times, but I have found that I don't know quite how to communicate what it…

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    9 YEARS

    It was inevitable that as I scrubbed through old posts from old blogs, combining them into my new blog space, that eventually I would find the posts from October 2006.…

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    Into the Woods

    I headed to the mountains, as always without a plan, just knowing that I -- my soul -- needed to go. After crossing the street from my apartment I took the…

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    In Memory

    I received news this morning that my aunt passed away after a year-long battle with cancer. After being declared cancer free at the end of last year, it returned this year…

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    8 years

    For some reason I'm dreading the day when the time my dad has been gone exceeds the time I had with him. It seems an illogical benchmark, but still it makes…

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    Seventy-Two

    Wherever you are I hope that you are drinking cheap domestic beer and eating handfuls of hard Christmas candy that nobody else wanted to eat.I hope that you are eating insane…

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    It’s Been Seven Years

    Today showed up without much fanfare -- crammed in between daily life, busy work schedules, being sick, and a trip we are leaving for tomorrow. Of course I always think of…