We are in the dog days of summer. I never knew what exactly that phrase meant. Oh, I knew it meant it was hot. But I didn't know why it meant that. Now I do. In

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I come up with the clever plan of seducing my mother-in-law. You can tell how old a Korean woman is by how curly hair is. They start with long straight hair. Perhaps it doesn't start long,

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I'm sitting in Dong-Daegu station, waiting for the train to Seoul. I see a dumpy white guy in shorts and a polo shirt with a sweater tied over his shoulders. I look around to see if

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Kitchen sinks in Korea are big- a single sink the size of a double sink. And the drains are big too. They have a big drain with a deep basket in it that catches all the food bits.

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April! Tax month. It's the busiest time of the year for mathematicians. Tax is about summing things up, and taking percentages. This calls for a mathematician. The calls I get from accountants at this time of

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There is a professor in our college that looks like Bill Clinton. I call him the Korean Bill Clinton. A handsome man with a head full of white hair. And the similarities don't end there. He

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In Korea one must use Windows. All internet banking sites have ActiveX controls, and every file anyone sends you is a proprietary .hwp format that is only viewable with a Haansoft Office Suite. There is a Linux version

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We go to have family photos taken. I am practicing my smile the whole way. It's not that I can't smile, my smile is just shy of cameras. Lucy is practicing too. "You

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