Trish Ryan

Author * Speaker

Book Review: Where The Wind Leads

April 21, 2014.Reading time 2 minutes.

Loved it. Where the Wind Leads is the story of a family forced out of Vietnam in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. The first part of the book chronicles the life they abandoned when they fled and their harrowing journey as unwanted “boat people” in desperate search of a place to land. Then the […]

To Awful to Watch

April 18, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

I wasn’t going to post (or think) about Good Friday this year, but then two things happened. First, we hired men with ladders and wire to trap and remove the squirrel that has been eating through our house. It was awful. I had to put a towel up over the window because I couldn’t watch. […]