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…