Life goes on

In the mid of indecision
I walked through the snow
With my dog Salem-Hieng
No one else except us in the hills
Far away from the world I used to know
Here in the woods where the snow is in charge
I start to wonder of the past
The future....not so much of the present
The snow I felt beneath my feet
Too sweat to recall
A tennis rising star
No more son, father
No more daughter, mother
No more pain, my world
My girls
My wife
My dear...
No more fear...
I leave it all to you, my God
Good night.....

The coldest day in Vermont

Despite the fact that the temperature was below -30 degree celcius this morning, it was beautiful to wake up. I took my time, taking the plow off from my Ford F-250 Super Duty truck. I didn't realize I had a dorm duty until I got to school. Still after taking off the plow and starting the truck, I began to rush -- brushing and flossing my teeth, shaving and jumping into a shower, putting anything clothes warm on with a tie and stepping out again into the cold and into the truck in which Maya, my daugther had been waiting. I needed to unlock the door of one of the classrooms I teach for a group of Bible study. I am very proud to be their advisor even though I have not had much opportunity participated much in the study. It was the first meeting of the year and semester. Thus, I made an affort to sit-in in the beginning of the meeting. Ben Price, a mdecial son leaded the study. He opened it by inviting anyone to any discussion. Somehow I ended up asking the group to help me pray for God's strength and blessing. I told them that going through medical school was the hardest task I have done in my life. It was even harder than being starving in Laos. Many times I was holding onto the edge of a cliff with my fingernails. With God's blessing and strength, I managed to keep my promise to become the first Kmhmu-Lao-American to become a medical doctor.

Time

Time is something we don't really have
It passes us by continously

The Barn

The Barn is full of very unique people
We're all family, doctor
You got to love it
Senior, junior, freshman and shopmore
Thought of the Barn
Yuan is very grumpy today
Go to your bed, freshman
He got four more years to go
You better come back next year
You won't find a better school than this
We have students from all over the world here
Spain, Mexico, China, Hongkong, Thailand, Germany,
Vietnam, Korea, Bermuda, Chile, France....Vermont and
all over the United States too.....
Five minutes to lights out!
Good night, guys....
See you tomorrow...

A snowy morning in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont

We woke up with one of the most beautiful snowy mornings in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We had not had this type of snow for as long as I can remember. The snow was so soft, light, clean and shinny all over the lawn and driveway. It was a perfect morning to get up and rush outside into the snow with our dog, Salem-Hieng. Hieng means black in Kmhmu, a native language of what used to be known as the Kingdom of Laos, or the Lao Larn Xang (the Lao Million Elephants). He is a good dog and friend. Many times he would be by my side when I am alone in the woods, or alone at night going to our shed to bring loads of firewood inside the house. If not for Salem-Hieng, I would be scare and afraid of the woods and darkness. Growing up in the Kingdom of Laos, now the country is known as the Republic of Lao, we were brought up with all different kind of scary and ghost stories and folktales. We were taught that the spirits of the death such as the ones we know and our ancestors, who used to live in that particular area will never faded away. They will still be there until they are born into another living in this existence. Despite the fact that I believe in science and have been living in the Western world longer than in Laos or Asia, I can't help myself getting scared in the darks and woods.