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Postcard From Paris

My best recommendation for visiting Paris, though, is to pick one thing to do each day and flâneur in the general direction of that…

Jan 10

Postcard From Paris

Jan 10

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Conversations with Care and Delight

At the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, an exhibit on dialogue asks: “Can dialogue create change?”

Dec 30, 2024

Conversations with Care and Delight

Dec 30, 2024

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Have you eaten?

To eat is to know Vietnam. To show love in Vietnam is to feed. To ask “Have you eaten?” is to say “I love you.” Sharing meals is not just…

Dec 22, 2024

Have you eaten?

Dec 22, 2024

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Plastic Stools and Prada

The internet cafe where I used to check my email in Hanoi in 2003 is now a coffee shop beside a two-story Uniqlo overlooking Hoan Kiem…

Dec 19, 2024

Plastic Stools and Prada

Dec 19, 2024

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Revenge Massage

The day after we arrived in the mountain town of Ba Vi, two practitioners of Eastern medicine from a nearby clinic came to our hotel room…

Dec 17, 2024

Revenge Massage

Dec 17, 2024

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Stranded in Transit

I’m traveling with my mother to Vietnam. In the rush to board our flight, her wheelchair was mistakenly checked through to Hanoi instead of…

Dec 10, 2024

Stranded in Transit

Dec 10, 2024

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Flower Power

“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

Nov 26, 2024

Flower Power

Nov 26, 2024

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Hey, We Need To Talk!

PBS NewsHour featured an art installation I created called “Hey, We Need To Talk!” in a segment about museums as a place for civic…

Nov 13, 2024

Hey, We Need To Talk!

Nov 13, 2024

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A Real Vietnamese Person

A salon conversation about how we navigate a world in which more and more people are multi-racial

Aug 26, 2024

A Real Vietnamese Person

Aug 26, 2024

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Eagle Huntress

Part 10: Young girls are winning eagle hunting contests in a male-dominated Kazakh tradition

Aug 2, 2024

Eagle Huntress

Aug 2, 2024

Philippa Hughes

Philippa Hughes

1.91K Followers

Creating space for conversations to transform society. Exploring what it means to be American. Recovering lawyer, public speaker, art fanatic philippahughes.com

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