I've upset Lucy. She grabs my chin and forehead and starts twisting my face around. "Daddy, break." she says. Minutes later, she is happy with me. She apologizes: "Face break, no. Good Daddy.

North Korea shells the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong killing two soldiers and two civilians. This! only months after they torpedoed the South Korean submarine Cheonan killing several people. Koreans seem to take these raised tensions more easily

Lucy is lying on the couch. I reach down and grab her nose, showing her my thumb poking through the first two fingers of a fist: "I've got your nose." She looks at me

As my wife is sleeping, I open up her head and look inside. It's a mess. There are half-finished thoughts laying around all over the place- some discarded, some set aside, disparate ideas are thrown together,

I am coming home from work. A wrinkled old lady sits with a small basket of apples on the side of the road amidst a pile of empty and bundled cardboard boxes. She is selling the apples, the

I am walking to work along a back street. I wear a sharp checked shirt under a V-necked sweater, and a dark jacket. I am wearing earphones connected to the rock-box in my pocket. I strike quite a

Movie theatres in Korea are expensive enough, but some of them have this neat thing where they show movies early in the morning for about 5 bucks. I am up early, and I think that perhaps I can

I have just eaten breakfast, and am sitting in my little glass box working on a survey on the complexity of CSP. My mother-in-law comes in and asks: MIL: Would you like to eat? Me: No thank-you. I&