It’s Wednesday, it’s raining, and the dog needs to go out.

Billie – I’ll call her Billie – sings her soft blues now,not a bark or a howl, but a throaty, … More

Do Them Part

Someone wake him before he dreams of her again.On the shore, two with pants legs, their cuffs rolled upto save … More

It’s billed as A Match Made in Heaven, a revered traditional Korean love storycarried down from a bygone age to … More

Korea’s a glove, the fingerless kind.A palm rests snug in it, the half warm, half clean, partprotected from the elements, … More

From the top of the Gwangbok Lotte Department StoreI can see the Yeongdo(daegyo) Draw Bridge crossing Busan Harbor.From this height, … More

The mail I sent to myself from Koreacame to Hawai‘i slower than I’d guessed.I am no longer there, I’m now … More

In my record store days, so hard to forget the bad,mostly race-related incidents back in the wild Midwest,haunting me when … More

Ever feel like you should be on trial for something?With what we get away with over our life’s course,do you … More

Back from Korea,I realize to my horrorwhen I wake up,dizzy from jet-lag,that I have to cook for myself.Breakfastand lunchand dinner.All … More

On Jeju Island we travel rough backroads on our small bus,bumping along narrowly through perfectly planted fields,row on row of … More

The Gyeongju National Museum houses a collection of art and artifactsspanning the 1000-year history of the Korean peninsula’s Silla period.The … More

Annie and I had planned to ride the ziplinefrom the mainland to Nami Island,famous as the romantic setting for Winter … More

There are soldiers buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busanwhose bodies were not returned to their home countries.Examining … More

I’m back home from my trip to Korea,watching the election returns, the right to vote,a cornerstone of our democracy, a … More

We eat well on this tour, a different restaurant for most meals.The breakfasts included at each of our hotels provide … More

I’m back, I thought, as I stepped off the plane,returned to my ancestral home once more,recalling all my blood bound … More

In the evening as the sun slips down in the horizon line,I see myself glimmering in the airport window glass,a … More

We’re visiting the TV set of Mister Sunshine, the first Korean drama I ever watched,back in 2019, after my first … More