My Love Letter to My Mom

My Love Letter to My Mom   Last July marked the 5th anniversary of my mother’s passing from ovarian cancer. After all of these years, I have not fully and/or properly mourned her death. There is this lingering feeling like something is missing and there is a void...

Our Stories

OUR STORIES  As part of the new documentary film project that NamQuyen (Q) Le and I are working on, Rachel, our Director of Photography, and I flew to Louisville, Kentucky in early April to do some scouting and preliminary filming and interviewing. (Detail info of the...

No Way Out – Depression

Recently, I signed up for a Storytelling for Change course by Acumen Academy. As a professional speaker, I am consistently improving my storytelling skills and refining my stories. An assignment for the course was to literally draw a Life Journey Map with pen and...

Defeated Even Before I Started

What does failure mean? How do people fail? Why do people fail? What is success? Why is it that certain people are successful and other people are not? What does success even mean? Who gets to define what success is and what failure is? We can all admit that the...

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Since I was young, every fall I’d experience and suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Over the last ten years, I have worked really hard to heal and recover myself from this form of depression. After years of hard work and support from my former therapist,...

Watching Myself on a Big Screen

“Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” was screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival last month at the Regal L.A. Live movie theater. This new cut of “Coffee Talking Mental Coffins” is over ten minutes long and I divulged more about the connections between my...