New Year Thoughts and Things

what I've been up to

Happy New Year and welcome back to An’s List, the first edit of 2023.

Last week, I learned of the sudden passing of my grandma, bà nội, my dad’s stepmom. Bà nội means paternal grandmother in Vietnamese. My mom told me it was due to a stroke on top of some heart conditions that made her body paralyzed 2 weeks ago, and a couple of days later at 4 am, she …