I don't care what the hippies say about a tomato being a fruit, it doesn't belong on a plate with grapes. Maybe if the church wants to regain its dwindling popularity, it should bring

I'm walking down the street, and everything smells of onion soup. I look, expecting to find a overturned bag of dehydrated onions, or perhaps a fellow dipping roast beef into his soup. The only thing I

I take Lucy skating. She wants to be Kim Yuna. We go to the Daegu City Ice Rink. It's a small rink with pullout bleachers pushed back into the wall. We rent skates, and go into

Korea is in the grips of a MERS scare. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome. A SYNDROME no less; no wonder people are scared. I remember when we used to have Camel Flu’s and Respiratory Viruses. Now it’s

My wife has started reading all sorts of self-help books- philosophy type things about proper living and being a better person. She learns a lot from them, but there is one important thing she doesn't seem

I'm walking down a road by my apartment. Like almost everywhere in Korea these days, most of the stores here are cafes. There are so many cafes, all with unexceptional coffee, that I don't

I see a student walking past the cafeteria with "Geek 98" written on his shirt. "If you're geek 98," I say, "I would hate to see geek number one."

I walk into the washroom at school to find four students in their letter-man jackets standing around, phones out, talking. I nod a greeting. But it is insincere.  What I am thinking is "This is bathroom misuse!