Tin Nguyen

Author: Tin

  • Pure Imagination

    Pure Imagination

    When I was a kid, there was this gap at the very top of my basement stairwell.  My cousins and I would line the floor of the basement with pillows and jump from the top onto the limestone floor. With no regard for our immediate safety, we would dive head-first into the shallow ocean of…

  • 7 Do Not’s of Intoxication

    7 Do Not’s of Intoxication

    I’m not going to generalize and give advice in pointless platitudes because that’s stupid and disingenuous to you. This is more advice for future me. 1. Don’t get drunk and sulk about the past. Don’t think about all the stupid mistakes that haunt your past like an unfriendly Casper. Like when the movie usher said “enjoy”…

  • Vacation at Home

    Vacation at Home

    Rocking in a wobbly green plastic chair outside of what could only be reasonably described as a decrepit gray shed of a “restaurant,” my eyes skimmed toward the bustling street, where a flurry of cars, mopeds, and swearing yellow people whirled around me. Waiting for our order, the eight of us sat patiently; ‘Americans’ and…