Writings
  With one or two exceptions, these are not polished works. Most are posts to various mailing lists (lightly edited); others are essays written way back when and not really polished since. Someday I hope to turn these into more formal compositions, but for now, it's potluck. Enjoy!
 

Tien's Blog: The Traveling Tiger

Updates on my current adventures and projects

 

Markleeville Death Ride Training Blog

An account of my attempt to train for, and ride, the Markleeville Death Ride - a one-day cycling event 129 miles long and requiring 15,000 feet of climbing, traversing five mountain passes.

 

Tien's Travel Blog

Accounts of my travels around the world

   
 

Essays

Courage
I wrote this back in 1998. It is, hands down, the best thing I've ever written.

The Loss of the Creature
A tribute to Walker Percy's essay of the same name. I wrote it in 1991, so it's a bit rough; I hope to rewrite it properly someday. (I'm not quite as militant as I was then--I'm not vegetarian anymore, for one thing--but I still like it.)

Foreigners
Written in 1997, as a retrospective to four months in Budapest in '89.

Why I Ride
The introduction to my book on AIDS Lifecycle, and an account of how I became involved with the ride.

   
 

Poetry

These are about my work with domestic violence.

Dedication Listening Witness
   
 

Mailing Lists