Paul Wong

A baby possum scavenging the leftovers from the bird feeder!

LA tennis star sighting! Leyla Fernandez and Sam Querrey practicing on the court behind us!

Remembering and missing Mom on what would’ve been her 93rd birthday today…❤️

Looking forward to singing in this concert one week from today with 30+ singer friends from my Musical Theatre Guild family.

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...only job almost 30 years before retiring. Also, I would be back on stage, a resumption of a creative journey that continues to this day. And just a few years after that, I would meet Tomm, now my husband of almost 36 years. Life is a strange but wonderful journey! #worldtravel #worldtraveler

... that couldn’t last forever, and maybe the decision to take the trip at all was a subconscious realization that I needed to get away from my previous life to make sense of my future life. Within a few months I would take a position on staff at a local medical center, not knowing it would be my...

...retrospect, I think I used academic success to combat feelings of inadequacy growing up as an ethnic minority in a predominantly Caucasian society as well as gay in a fiercely homophobic society. And with the added shadow of AIDS, I think it was easier to put all my energy into my studies. But...

...telling me “Your big conflict in life will be a plethora of fortunate choices.” And I had largely put my personal life on hold for 10 years. On one hand, I had been busy pursuing my undergraduate degree, medical school degree and internship/residency programs over the previous decade. But in ...

...decade of academic studies leading to my medical degree, I had discovered a renewed urge to explore the creative world of musical theatre, especially after binging on theatre the previous 2 weeks in London and New York. But loving the medicine too, I more fully understood Yip Harburg once ...

...of the world outside of the United States. But I had also learned a lot about myself, arriving home as a much more calm and confident young man than the one that had departed LAX 228 days prior with a better understanding of the maxim “it’s the journey, not the destination”. After more than a...

...had changed me in ways that I wouldn’t realize until years later, maybe even until now. Physically, I had started and ended in the same place geographically. But in a way, I had traveled around the world to search for and to find… me. Of course, I had seen, experienced and learned about much...

...strange to pay for the flight on the plane itself. Also surprisingly, the plane was half empty which made it even more comfortable. Arriving at LAX, my mother walked right past me in baggage claim without recognizing me at first. Maybe it was the dark tan, but I also think the long journey ...

guide was an amusingly entertaining wisecracker as the iconic sites of New York like the Statue of Liberty and the UN building floated by. After a T-bone steak lunch, the trip to Newark Airport was uneventful for my flight on People’s Express, where check-in was also easy, although it was a bit...

The last day... 40 years ago today, with most of the day to kill before my late afternoon flight, I took the Circle Line Cruise around Manhattan. The clouds were breaking up as we departed and while it was brisk and cool initially, the sun finally came out later and it became quite pleasant. The...

...and enjoyable as BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS. But mostly, I spent a lot of time just reflecting on the long journey I had taken. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

40 years ago today, the last full day of my around the world journey, was mostly a quiet day, getting my luggage organized for the last of the 40+ plane flights I had taken since January. I did attend a performance of Neil Simon’s other play on Broadway, BILOXI BLUES, which was as well done ...

...after 40 years, I remember my friends who didn’t survive and wonder how the rest of us did. One day at a time, and a little luck, I guess. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

...in 1981 (back when AIDS was referred to as GRID, or Gay Related Immune Deficiency) so the play hit home directly. This was still in the era of public and governmental apathy towards the disease when the gay community was still largely ostracized by a large portion of society. Looking back ...

...right), I attended a performance of AS IS, a groundbreaking play at the time for its frank and unapologetic look at a slice of gay life in the era of AIDS, featuring John Hadary. I had been the primary hospital physician for one of the first PWA’s (Person With AIDS) in Los Angeles as an intern...

...scheduled for the day but there were some interesting exhibits, and it reminded me of my strong interest in astronomy as a child. After following Nancy’s recommendation of Jimmy Ray’s on 46th Street and 8th Avenue (unfortunately destroyed in a fire in 1988) as a good dinner choice (she was ...

...people whose countries I visited in the past 7 months with a greater understanding and a different perspective than I had during previous visits. In a way, it was almost a recap of a lot of my experiences. The Hayden Planetarium, which I visited as a child with my family, did not have a show ...

40 years ago today, in the mood for something different, I visited the Museum of Natural History, which was much larger and more extensive than I had remembered from visits I had made as a child and even as recently as 4 years previously with my friend Judy. I particularly saw the exhibits of ...

These "before" pictures popped up in my reminder feed from exactly 5 years ago today as we were about to break ground on the pool and landscaping project. You can see the red paint lines on the dirt laying out the margins for digging. What a difference in 5 years!

...little more time catching the last few acts of the festival, which had been delayed by rain. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

...vehicles. There were various competitions and performances on 2 stages as well as other acts performing on the streets, including comedy, music, magician, clowns, breakdancing, etc. THE FOREIGNER was a very funny farce in a theatre near the festival and after the end of the show I spent a ...

...before the skies opened into a downpour. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS was cute and campy, and I particularly liked the splendid 3 woman back up chorus. The Village Voice sponsored Street Performers Festival took place that day, so the nearby streets were packed with pedestrians and closed to motor ...

40 years ago today, I slept in until 10 am, partly from the antihistamine I took for my hay fever allergies, something I hadn’t experienced anywhere in the previous 7 months, but which was hitting me hard in NYC. The weather was changeable and threatening and I barely got to the Orpheum theatre ...

...at the apartment she shared with her fiancée (now husband) Dom Holzhaus, who was an attorney from South Africa. It was an enjoyable evening of great conversation, exchanging perspectives about medicine, law and theatre. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

40 years ago today, it was cloudy and a bit cooler. I attended the funny and very well-done matinee performance of BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS starring Nicholas Stouse (son of famed composer Charles Strouse) as Eugene. That evening, I visited another Musical Theatre Workshop classmate, Nancy Burke ...

...Dinner Club. The performers were all strong and I particularly enjoyed “I Ham What I Ham” and “Screamgirls”. #worldtravel #worldtraveler