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peasant daughter 20 Jul 2012 | 07:18 pm
me in my ajumma farming sun bonnet Oh the days have been flying by…I’ve been so engrossed in serendipitous research that I hate to go to sleep. It’s really great! I’d gone through a period of hatin...
Geographies of Kinship needs you 29 Jun 2012 | 04:47 pm
Please support this documentary We know it’s going to be amazing because Deann Borshay Liem is the director, and because her previous two films, First Person Plural, and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee...
podcast 29 Jun 2012 | 03:15 pm
ha! thought i’d say something embarrassing in this interview with Kevin Ost Vollmers, but i must have been having a moment of lucidity. enjoy! Filed under: Uncategorized
So close yet so far 17 Jun 2012 | 11:57 pm
Living here one develops amnesia. With all the day to day challenges, I forget that I’m ethnically Korean, or that I’m an adoptee, or that I am in Birth Family Search. About 30 miles away, as the cr...
camptown prostitution 17 Jun 2012 | 08:24 pm
summary of my notes from the workshop: Basically the workshop was an overview of how prostitution in Korea has been state sanctioned since Japanese colonization continuously through to today. It gav...
TPR and immersion 17 Jun 2012 | 06:02 pm
This is almost interesting enough for me to want to continue teaching ESL. …Almost… Asher’s TPR methods have improved a lot since the 80′s and it isn’t only for beginning students anymore. Offshoots...
blah blah blah 29 May 2012 | 12:12 am
Here I am, lying on my yo, which I’m too lazy to ever fold up and which is covered in Momo’s spring molting, head propped up on the couch, with the boob tube on. Again. As always. Sigh. I went to the...
Orientalism 25 May 2012 | 03:20 am
I put quite a lot of time in on my latest comment at Transracialeyes. It’s kind of a summation of what I’ve learned about Korean culture in regards to adoption while living here. I also posted on Fac...
Benny should come to Korea… 22 May 2012 | 02:10 am
since he likes America so much. Benny Lewis, btw, is an Irish bloke who moves to a new country nearly every year and chats people up all over the world to add notches to his polyglot belt. I admit i...
I’ve seen the grass: it’s not greener, but it’s mine. 20 May 2012 | 08:46 pm
I remember yards. I miss grass. Sorry I haven’t written in a long time. I sometimes feel the desire to write, but as I set out to do so, I realize it’s just another version of the same story of dis...
