Hi friends, Thanks for subscribing!  I have two posts on Psychology Today this week that hopefully will be of interest to you.  I hope you can click through on at least one of them - that helps me know that these messages are getting to you  A Noble Sadness:  The Benefits of Sorrow   Anger is more viral, but sadness is more connecting.  This essay probes sadness as a sobering and connecting force. Moped Mind:  Mindfulness and Nonduality Inspire in Vietnam This essay bridges my tr ...Continue Reading

Hello! Thanks for being on my email list! As a bonus, please visit this link to download my free e-book on anger.  This includes essays on Asian American male and female anger, domestic violence, as well as social media rage, as well as a few poems about anger.  This last essay is an excerpt from my book-in-progress, Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks.  You will also find a link to my poetry book, published in 2011, and including poems from the groundbreaking anthology&nb ...Continue Reading

For those of you in the East Bay or willing to travel, there will be an encore, regularly priced screening of TYRUS directed by Pamela Tom ’83 will be at the New Parkway Theater on Sunday March 20 at 12:30.  This was just announced. TYRUS - Tickets available here 474 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 Here’s what I wrote about it on opening night. And if you’re interested, here’s my most recent comprehensive blog post about the festival, featuring films about prisoner turned activist Eddy Zheng, the Cambodian sur ...Continue Reading

Hi all, March brings more than the usual number of emails from me, because of CAAMFest, which runs March 10-20.  Here are my most recent blog posts about the festival.  My coverage of the festival experience itself will start this Friday, after Opening Night's TYRUS screening and party.  There are still tickets available.   Enter TYRUS50 code at checkout to receive the $50 Friends & Family rate for combo tickets! (Regular price is $65).  When you “enter prom ...Continue Reading

My recent blog post went "viral" or "bacterial" - on anti-Asian racism at the Oscars Sunday night: #Oscarssowhite - Antidote for Anti-Asian Racism is CAAMFest Also, I'm pleased to offer some discounts and comps.  The comps are first come first serve. DISCOUNT FOR OPENING NIGHT and PARTY of CAAMFEST: TYRUS is an award-winning documentary about now-105 year old Tyrus Wong, Chinese American animator who was influential at Disney, using his Chinese art aesthetic for Bambi, and facing racism.   ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Thanks for remaining a subscriber!   We're a month out from CAAMFest (the Asian American International Film Festival in San Francisco), and I've begun my 11th year of writing my blog, Memoirs of a Superfan.  Check out my Lunar New Year/Year of the Monkey post, both at www.CAAMedia.org and Psychology Today: Year of the Monkey:  A Most Chimpathic Year Psychology Today:  Year of the Monkey - Which Monkey Are You? ALSO:  I was on BYU Radio a couple of months ago, responding to campus u ...Continue Reading

Dear all - please don't hit unsubscribe !  Several people told me they didn't get the message I sent today (and it didn't even come to me or my mom!!), so I'm resending, with BONUS GIFT IDEAS at the bottom.  I'm promoting my friends' work - Tony Nguyen (documentary filmmaker) and Goh Nakamura and Vienna Teng (both musicians).  So please read up on my latest work if you didn't read the previous message, and scroll down to the bottom for more goodies! Happy Holidays!  Thanks for staying with me ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Happy Holidays!  Thanks for staying with me and keeping abreast of the latest news and publications!  It’s been almost 6 months since the last newsletter.  I do my best not to flood your inbox.  We all get too many emails.  Hopefully this one brings you some joy and new understandings. Published in Clinical Psychiatric News An expose about Amazon’s workplace environment in the New York Times compelled me to write about workplace abuse for Clinical Psychiatric News. Emotional intelligenc ...Continue Reading

Dear Friends, Thanks for staying on my occasional email list!  I added some of you manually, I hope that's ok - if you're really bothered by a quarterly email from me, you can unsubscribe - but man, will I miss you!   IN THIS ISSUE: 1.  FREE BOOK 2.  FACEBOOK deactivation and news about my book-in-progress 3.  ESSAYS FROM VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA 4.  KRISTINA WONG'S UPCOMING PERFORMANCES and RECENT TV APPEARANCE! 1.  FREE BOOK Last fall, I released a book of essays on Asian Am ...Continue Reading

Hi friends! Thanks for being part of this list!  I have some exciting news - I just got my first Op Ed published in a major newspaper!  Please click the link below and help spread the word.  The more popular my article, the more likely I'll be asked to do more. Thank you for sharing with your friends! Deactivate Facebook, Become Human in the New York Daily News Hopefully this will bring my book one step closer to publication!  Let me know what you think! +++++++++++++++ In other news, a coup ...Continue Reading