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Memory
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Dec 3, 2025
For decades, I've been trying to observe absolutely everything. And the more I've witnessed, the more I've missed.
Language
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Nov 19, 2025
How irony can help us walk back our conspiratorial thinking.
Travel
Sep 12, 2025
My recollection of the past is crisp but scattered. Will a pile of ancient photos make sense of it all?
Sep 3, 2025
My brain makes it hard to live in the moment, but there's one place I've found I can truly be present: the highway.
Jul 1, 2025
An argument for the most uncomfortable emotion.
May 29, 2025
In the mid-1990s, Phuong Anh Nguyen made Q Bar the most important bar in Vietnam—and possibly the world.
Writing
May 8, 2025
It takes a leap of faith to connect language and experience—and sometimes we land in the abyss.
Pop Culture
May 6, 2025
This musician not only changed my life—she defined it.
Apr 30, 2025
How the end of the Vietnam War set the course of my life.
Jan 2, 2025
Between the past, the present, and the future, we're all stuck in the dungeon of the memory palace.
