melanie nguyen
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OPINION: ‘My English small, but my thinking big’ (via @melyapsondaily.bsky.social)
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‘My English small, but my thinking big’
‘My English small, but my thinking big’
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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OPINION: Who gets to be Vietnamese? (via @melyapsondaily.bsky.social)
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Who gets to be Vietnamese?
Who gets to be Vietnamese?
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October 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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OPINION: In my pursuit of traveling home, I follow Trịnh Công Sơn. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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Trịnh and I
Home, whatever that may mean, is always somewhere between here and there like a playlist on shuffle that never quite lands on the song you were hoping for.
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May 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
OPINION: In my pursuit of traveling home, I follow Trịnh Công Sơn. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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OPINION: My Vietnamese, once instinctual, now waits in the corners of my mouth like an old friend too shy to call my name. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social)
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Fluent in nothing at all
I flinch when someone asks if I’m fluent. Fluent in what? English, Vietnamese, Japanese? Which do I belong to?
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May 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
OPINION: My Vietnamese, once instinctual, now waits in the corners of my mouth like an old friend too shy to call my name. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social)
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ARTS + CULTURE: Live at Madame Lou’s: How I Fell for Sunday (1994) (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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Live at Madame Lou’s: How I Fell for Sunday (1994)
Once in a while, a new artist graces you with a couple of pleasant songs, the kind you hum along to for a week and then tuck away, like a
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May 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
ARTS + CULTURE: Live at Madame Lou’s: How I Fell for Sunday (1994) (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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OPINION: In many ways, forgetting your homeland while living in another country is easy.
We forget the taste of certain fruits, the way the rain sounds on old tin roofs, and how quick and efficient trips to the doctor are. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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We forget the taste of certain fruits, the way the rain sounds on old tin roofs, and how quick and efficient trips to the doctor are. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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Elsewhere, I Dream in English
That’s what no one tells you about living away from home: that the longer you stay, the more invisible your belonging becomes — to others, and sometimes to yourself.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
OPINION: In many ways, forgetting your homeland while living in another country is easy.
We forget the taste of certain fruits, the way the rain sounds on old tin roofs, and how quick and efficient trips to the doctor are. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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We forget the taste of certain fruits, the way the rain sounds on old tin roofs, and how quick and efficient trips to the doctor are. (via @whatthemell.bsky.social )
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