The Myth of Every Hope Fulfilled

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

The Closest Shave, my third Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based crime story, is now available on Amazon

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

Right now, we’re on a South Korean island, Jeju,sitting in what China calls the East China Sea,and what the Koreans, … More

I’m back in Korea, the birthplace of my father’s parents,which means I’m again seeing people everywherewho appear as though they … More

If you’d ask me 20 years ago how I felt about phones,I’d have said something along the lines of them … More