A few weeks ago, I went out to meet a friend named Crystal. Crystal was a long-term expat living in Korea, when suddenly, a spinal problem ...

Oma is the Dutch word for grandmother. I will add more later, but for now... I feel very very far away from my family in Canada.

First of all: I'm okay. My family is okay. One nice thing about being a dad is that my Halloween party plans tend to be in the afternoon...

 This was a note I wrote on Facebook, but I think it deserves commemoration on my blog, too. It's not the first time I've written ab...

Roboseyo! Are you blogging again? Here's the thing I wrote about how South Korea flattened the curve. USA just had 3.2 million ...

Might be time to revive Mr Rogers week. A friend, who is a paramedic (and you think your  job is stressful) asked me how I think Sou...

To Recap: Weirdo that I am, I'm commemorating the CoVid19 lockdown by watching plague movies, and because I love you, dear reader, I...

I made a weird connection a while ago. Bear with me. Mr Rogers is back in the zeitgeist these days, with an upcoming film where Tom ...

  When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain Before high piled books in charactery Hold...

It's a year after the Sewol Ferry disaster. Later today I'll walk around a few of the mourning and commemoration sites. Perhaps I w...

A few news items have been blazing across my Facebook wall, and I'd like to weigh in briefly on a few of them. I'll be as concise a...

Read KimchiBytes. Read  The Secret Map 's fictional "letter from Sewol" Read  Brother Anthony and Korean poet Ko-Un 's ...