So a lot has happened since my last letter. I remember writing in my journal a few months ago, "what does it mean that my life has b...

OK. It being fully two months since I've sent one of these out, and those two months being quite eventful and mostly excellent . . . it...

My jacket smells like saltwater. A long long time ago (for those who don't already know), my ancestors (on my father's side) were fi...

It's been a miserable, white-knuckled fight with a cold for me these last two months (that's the knock-down, drag-out in the subje...

OK. Fully aware that the last e-mail was a downer (so much so that I've received about a third of the normal number of responses to my ...

This one got more and more personal as I went on, so pardon the initial cuteness; I decided halfway through that it was only going out to ...

So anyway, I have no idea why I'm indoors right now, except that I'm recovering from a cold. The snow outside is, paraphrased from ...

Hi everybody. This letter is just to tell you that I arrived safely in Korea yesterday night. This area (Joongkye) is great -- there are r...