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On Tuesday, August 31st, I called Edmond while walking back from Smith’s Welcome Back Orientation to my rented apartment. I said over the phone “I feel very exhausted to be surrounded by so many people.” I still vividly remember the.....

You’re turning 30 in less than a month. You’re thinking about getting a tattoo, the one you have always wanted for a while. You had asked a friend to design one for you. You told her that it was the.....

I video called my mother tonight through Facebook Messenger. My mom’s health condition has been declining for the past two years, and it is getting worse every day. I cannot imagine all the physical pain that she is going through.....

Every week by Thursday evening, my body feels exhausted, my brain starts freezing and my shoulders become really tense. I would then stand outside my apartment to catch a breath of fresh air as I hear my soul telling me.....

In December 2020, for my final paper in Comparative Politics course, I wrote an Op-Ed research essay about Myanmar entitled, “We Can’t Rush Democracy: Myanmar Needs More Time.”  In the essay, I noted the country’s complex political history, throughout its.....

01.13.2021 This morning I watched the PBS Live Streaming of the debate in the US House of Representatives on to impeach President Trump and remove him from office before Inauguration Day on Jan 20th, exactly a week from today. The.....

I scrolled through Instagram last night and it was Nov 9th in the motherland. A picture of the King Father, Norodom Sihanouk who freed Cambodia from the French colony on Nov 9, 1953 was posted on the Cambodia_Royal Instagram page......

Most nights I dream about my artist life. Something always goes wrong in those dreams, either the light did not turn on stage, my teammates were late, or I missed my cue. Last night my artist life came back in.....

As the new decade begins, I find myself wondering if the world is going insane. In 2019, the Amazon forest was on fire and at the beginning of 2020, Australia is on fire. Iranians are mad at Trump and it.....

I sit across the table from Asa at Nando’s in Dupont Circle and said, “I can’t believe I am back. Three weeks at home feels like a dream.” The word “home” referred to my homeland, Cambodia. I visited "home” for.....