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"Which God Is Ours" was published in the Summer 2016 issue of Colere

"The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam" won Second Prize in the 2015 Literal Latte Essay Award

"Which God Is Ours" was published in the Spring 2015 issue of Asia Literary Review and won honorable mention in the 2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards

Vietnam

Rice and Shrimp Farming

...When farming rice, people aren’t the only animals used in farming. People use water buffalo not tractors, which get stuck in mud, to plow the fields. There are sometimes lots of scarecrows in some fields, just cloth hung on sticks, to keep the birds away. I also saw another interesting technique to keep birds away, someone had hung a net in a garden, and so if a bird flew into the garden, it would get stuck in the net. Sometimes people raise ducks in rice fields. The ducks fertilize the rice plants with their droppings. They also eat the weeds and insects from around the rice plants.....

Homeschool Corner

...Of all the dishes we learned to prepare in Vietnam, my favorite was bánh xèo, which are crepes that can be filled with pork, shrimp, onions and sprouts, wrapped up in lettuce with veggies and herbs. They are a wonderful combination of salty, sweet, savory, sour and spicy and also have a variety of temperatures and textures. Here's the recipe...

Vietnamese Bánh Xèo

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"Hamams and Sacrificial Altars”

SLAB, Fall 2016

"Which God Is Ours"

Summer 2016 Colere

"The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam" 2015 Literal Latte Essay Award

"Halloween in Bulgaria"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards

"Thanksgiving on the Bosphorus"

Santa Fe Writers Project, February 2016:

"Garlic Naan for Hanuman"

Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2015:

"Escaping the Swine Flu, Nearly"

Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2015:

"Farewell to the Highlands"

Your Life Is A Trip, October 2015:

"Homeward Bound"

Your Life Is A Trip, May 2015:

The Big Field Trip

"Escaping the Great Mosque of Uqba" World Press Review, April 2015:

"Homeschooling on the Road"

International Living, August 2014:

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"Which God Is Ours?"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Award and

published in Asia Literary Review, Spring 2015:

"The Scorpion Whisperer"

Eventus Magazine, June 2014:

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