These lessons on resilience, gratitude, and hope are from The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku, a Holocaust survivor who was born as Abraham Salomon Jakubowicz in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany. He died in 2021 at the age of 101 in Sydney, Australia. There's nothing original about … Continue reading 10 Key Lessons from “The Happiest Man on Earth”
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Vietnamese Higher Education at a Crossroads: Transformation During the Digital Age
I'm pleased to have played a modest role in bringing this project to fruition. (Click on the image to see the publisher's description. The release date was August 8, September 2024.) However, Professors Thanh and Tuan, my co-editors and authors, deserve the lion's share of credit for their research contributions and fine organizational and editorial … Continue reading Vietnamese Higher Education at a Crossroads: Transformation During the Digital Age
Happy Juneteenth!
The past is never dead. It's not even past. -William Faulkner It's still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that slavery was legally abolished in the US less than 100 years before I was born. This 1848 auction of 25 fieldhands, 18 women, six girls, 10 boys, and one female cook and seamstress … Continue reading Happy Juneteenth!
The Pale Blue Dot of Earth
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. -Carl Sagan In case you need a … Continue reading The Pale Blue Dot of Earth
Telling Our Stories: A Tale from Vietnam
What's Past is Prologue (W. Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610-11) We all have stories to tell, knowledge and experiences to share, and advice to offer. The longer we live, the greater the supply, generally speaking. For as long as I can remember, I have been passionate about history as a means of making sense of what … Continue reading Telling Our Stories: A Tale from Vietnam
Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education (Spring 2023)
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices This is the very long and descriptive title of a forthcoming book edited by Pii-Tuulia Nikula, Principal Academic, Te Pukenga – New Zealand Institute of Technology and Skills, Vincenzo Raimo, an independent higher education consultant and Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, where he previously served … Continue reading Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education (Spring 2023)
Không gì là không thể lại không thể nhắc đến sự thật về Việt Nam
This is a Vietnamese translation of my 29 April 2022 article entitled “Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam that originally appeared in CounterPunch. Translation by Nhã Uyên. (Cảm ơn đồng chí!) Shalom (שלום), MAA Ngay trước Tết Nguyên đán, tôi cuối cùng đã nhận được bản đánh giá của mình … Continue reading Không gì là không thể lại không thể nhắc đến sự thật về Việt Nam
“And where there is sadness, joy” by Kent Nerburn
The image is linked to the book on Amazon.com This is a story written by US writer Kent Nerburn that went viral as The Last Cab Ride. Originally entitled The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget, it appeared in his 1999 book, Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace. I reprint it here because I want … Continue reading “And where there is sadness, joy” by Kent Nerburn
“Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam
Here's my latest for CounterPunch. Thanks to Rutgers University Press for the review copy. Better late than never. Here are some excerpts, including the two paragraphs followed by a section entitled The Measure of the Man. Enjoy (or not)! Just before the Lunar New Year, I finally received my review copy of Nothing is Impossible: America’s … Continue reading “Nothing is Impossible” Finds It Impossible to Tell the Truth About Vietnam
Mixing Historical Apples & Oranges
The book I'm currently reading. If you haven't heard of Kent Nerburn and you're interested in US history and various Native American tribes that have been victimized and marginalized by said history, I recommend that you to look him up. I follow him on Facebook (I'm an author who works in the fields of spirituality … Continue reading Mixing Historical Apples & Oranges
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