Personal Journal
Hong Kong Trip: Getting There
I found out a couple months ago that I had a four-day vacation coming up. This was the year I decided to live a little. We’ve concentrated so much on saving money for housing contracts and other things that we have never taken a vacation together as a family in Asia. In 2012, we visited…
Thanksgiving 2018 – An Appetizer-ey One
Tomorrow’s our third annual neighborhood Thanksgiving. Jian is really into it this year. When I was a kid, my cousin Matthew had a funny story he still repeats each year. It was his job when we were tweens to make the sweet potato casserole. He mistook a shot of whiskey for a cup of whiskey in…
Chuseok 2018
Lately Chuseok and Seollal have been my “Bachelor Weeks.” I usually get tours booked, so I have to stay in the Seoul area during the holidays while the girls go visit the family in Gyeongju. My plans were thwarted this time. Nah, it’s all good. I’m glad we went. i’m not happy about the over…
Moving Across the Street
It has already been four years since the last move. That move in 2014 was a big one. I had lived in that apartment and in Anyang longer than I’d lived anywhere in my adult life. So much history had happened there, including my marriage and the birth of my daughter. What made the transition…
Developing Thoughts on Bourdain
A week has passed. This is more of a personal post, so forgive the rambling. I decided to take the website off of “mourning mode.” It’s no longer black and gray. It’s not that I’m done mourning–well, I am. At this point in my life, I have enough experience with this stuff that I don’t…
Anthony Bourdain: Patron Rogue To the Restless
We will hear a lot of tributes from the restaurant community about Anthony Bourdain. He’s always been identified as a chef first. That’s his tribe. There’s another tribe that has secretly claimed him since he started his travels in “A Cook’s Tour” in the early 2000s. They’re the wandering beings who find no comfort in…
Our PyeongChang 2018 Experience
I wouldn’t have done this if not for my daughter, Jian. After all this time, the PyeongChang Olympics finally started. They had twice attempted to get the Olympics and got it on the third try. I actually hosted a video in 2011 that was supposedly shown to the IOC to help PyeongChang’s candidacy. (It’s embarrassing.)…
