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Mark is an award-winning playwright and director. He has published 12 novels in varied genres. His plays have been performed around the world. A world traveler, he has lived and taught English and Theatre in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia.
Well, I kind of knew this was going to happen. I’ll be taking a one-week hiatus from my podcast schedule to accommodate my final drama show in Saudi Arabia later this week. We’ve been doing technical rehearsals, and there was just no way I was going to finish my writing of episode 11. So I’ve…
Episode 9 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall how learning to navigate shopping for food in my early days of Vietnam began to instill within me a love for cooking. Then…
Episode 8 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I recall the hilarious story of me trying to find a live Christmas tree in Thai Nguyen Vietnam in 1999. In remembering this story, I…
Episode 7 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I talk about the year I spend learning the Vietnamese language in the late 1990s. As I think through that time and its ramifications of…
Episode 5 of the Crossing Ideas Podcast is now available for streaming or downloads on any podcast service including Spotify, Apple, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple, Google, and more. In this episode, I talk about the lessons of patience I needed to learn to adapt into the Vietnamese culture after moving there in the 1990s. My interactions…
From episode four of the Crossing Ideas Podcast, I recall the day I was told that local officials in Thai Nguyen were watching me. Do we really want government or commercial entities watching us today? Well, we more or less invite them in. At the link below, you can listen to the entire episode and…
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