“you are so white,” they marvel. they say my eyes are pretty. they say my nose is so tall. they say my hair suits me because i am so white. they say my hands are beautiful and long. they say. they say. and i want to scream. do you know what i say? i say… Read More a poem: you don’t look at me
My dear friend and fellow expat blogger Lani recently asked me some questions for her interview series on bloggers who live outside their home countries. In it, I talk about the pros and cons of living abroad, what my typical day in Korea looks like, and what’s most different about life in Korea. You can… Read More Expat Blogger Interview at Life, the Universe, and Lani
open waters. in high school, in college, in my first year of teaching and living overseas, i knew exactly where i wanted to be. i wanted to be in Korea. i was in a boat rowing hard down a single lane track with all my might, Korea at the end, the prize, the destination. nothing… Read More a poem: open waters
June 1 I have no clocks because I don’t like to be reminded of the passage of time. I don’t remember what the book was called, but something I read once talked about how we took power away from God when we made clocks and set them up as our new idols, forever worshipping the efficient… Read More Excerpts from my journal; Early June 2017
April Today is the kind of day that makes me thrilled. It’s the kind of feeling that Korea translates as heart-fluttering. Sure, the sky is overcast and a thick grey that puts me in mind of fog porridge, and the temperature dipped down twelve degrees, but apart from all that, today is a wonderful day.… Read More Excerpts from my journal; Spring 2017
