Tag: Vietnam

• Three Generations – One Awesome Vietnam Story

  As The Reach of the Banyan Tree gets closer to launch day, I want to highlight the one American family which always seems to be connected to Vietnam – the Carson family. Charles Carson was a member of the OSS (pre-cursor to the CIA) and parachuted into Tonkin, French Indochina in the summer of 1945, just…

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  June 13, 2014

  Indie Author

  adventure, French Indochina, Indochina, love story, new book releases July, novel characters, OSS, romance, Sasse novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, Tonkin, Vietnam

• One Month from Today: The Reach of the Banyan Tree

  I was excited about the release of both of my first two novels, but with my third novel on the horizon, I’m a little more excited than usual. Why? I guess it is because of the story and the back story of writing it. I was living in Thai Nguyen Vietnam (where much of the…

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  June 1, 2014

  Indie Author

  book new releases July, modern Vietnam, Sasse novel, The Reach of the Banyan Tree, Vietnam, Vietnam 1945, vietnam novels

• My Story: I Stand Out in an Asian Crowd

  I wrote this for another website a while back. It sums me up well, though, so I thought I’d post it here. I stand out in a crowd in Asia. That may seem like a strange place to start in telling my story, but it has been the one constant truth in my life for…

  sassevn

  April 8, 2014

  Indie Author, Life, Penang

  Asian experiences, expat in Asia, living in Asia, malaysia, Penang, Pirates, Vietnam, Western Pennsylvania

• Decision Making in Writing: When Writers and Readers Disagree

  I always say this: “Writing is all about making decisions. Good writing is about making the right decisions.” Now if someone would please point out to me the meaning of ‘right decision’ then I’ll be sitting at a Parisian Cafe with the next generation of Roaring 20s writers. How do you know when you made…

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  March 28, 2014

  Indie Author, Writing Process

  beauty rising, critique, indie author, reviews, Vietnam, writing, writing process

• My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #1 northern Vietnam (Part II)

  In Part I of my post about my favorite place in Asia Part I HERE, I took the time to talk about the Vietnamese people who, indeed, make northern Vietnam a special place. But I felt I needed another post to round things out and highlight some of the other special aspects about this incredible…

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  March 14, 2014

  Places & Tourism

  favorite places in asia, ha long bay, Hanoi, hoa binh, lai chau, perfume pagoda, sapa, Tan Trao, Thai Nguyen, top 10 destinations asia, tuyen quang, Vietnam

• My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #1 – northern Vietnam (Part I)

  I’ve had a lot of fun counting down my favorite Asian places. Once again, these are only places that I have actually visited. Many of you have offered up some other incredible destinations perhaps worthy of another list. I hope to get to them all some day. But on top of my list, and it…

  sassevn

  March 8, 2014

  Places & Tourism

  favorite asian places, northern Vietnam, southeast asia, Thai Nguyen, top 10 favorite places in Asia, top asian destinations, Vietnam, Vietnamese people

• My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #6 – southern Vietnam

  I have had the privilege of visiting four different parts of southern Vietnam (admittedly, all of them are quite a ways back): Quy Nhon, Nha Trang, Dalat, Ho Chi Minh City. When taken as a whole, southern Vietnam has quite the interesting scope, making it a wonderfully fun and exciting place to visit. Ho Chi…

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  February 9, 2014

  Places & Tourism

  Asian destinations, Cu Chi Tunnels, Dalat, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang, Quy Nhon, top destinations in Asia, Vietnam

• Know Your History: Americans Helping the Viet-Minh in 1945

  On July 16, 1945 a group of American OSS officers (Office of Strategic Services – the precursor to the CIA) parachuted into the Viet-Minh HQ in Tan Trao, Tonkin. (Tonkin was the name for northern Vietnam during the French colonial period.) This small group of officers were charged with helping to train the Vietnamese to…

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  February 5, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  Deer Team, Dien Bien Phu, French, French Indochina, French-Indochina War, Ho Chi Minh, OSS, Tan Trao, Tonkin, Viet Minh, Vietnam

• Happy Vietnamese New Year (and a reminder of Tet ’68)

  Chuc mung nam moi! Happy ‘Tet’ everyone. January 31 marks the most important holiday of the year for the Vietnamese. Yes, yes. It’s the same as Chinese New Year, but no self-respecting person from Vietnam who speaks Vietnamese (like myself) would ever refer to it using the name of their northern neighbor. It’s ‘Tet’! For…

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  January 31, 2014

  History & Culture, Vietnam

  Chinese New Year, Lyndon Johnson, MLK, Robert Kennedy, Tet, Tet 1968, Tet offensive, Vietnam, Vietnamese New Year

• My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: Not Making the Cut

  I was doing an author’s interview recently and the interviewer asked what is my favorite place in Asia. That made me really stop and think. I’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled to some pretty cool places throughout east and southeast Asia. So I decided to do my blog’s first 10 ten series. I’ve compiled…

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  January 25, 2014

  Places & Tourism

  Asian destinations, Bali, Bangkok, cambodia, phnom penh, top asian destinations, top places in Asia, Vientiane, Vietnam