Just kidding. This is a one-off post to share some of the travel tips from my experience planning for and embarking on a trip around Great Britain in Spring 2025. While I may share other travel-related tips in the future, I remain your short story, essay-writing poet. UK Electronic Travel Authorisation The UK started requiring …
As winter fades into the green of spring with occasional final throes of cold weather, I've been reading Korean and Chinese poetry that focuses primarily on autumn and winter, which seems a fitting way to close the season. If this is your first foray into Korean or Mandarin poetry, I suggest starting with more accessible …
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I thought this might be a fun way to close out 2024. After all, nothing hits the spot this time of year quite like a bit of introspection, right? My blogging adventure has spanned more than a decade, and I've blogged in groups, as well as solo. When so many other writing bloggers burn out, …
The United States of America was barely 60 years old when French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville published the final volume of Democracy in America in 1840. At over 700 pages long, you might wonder how de Tocqueville could find so much to say about such a young country...and whether any of it was worth …
As the trailer for Broker highlights, this 2022 Korean film is from the same studio that created the 2019 Oscar-winner Parasite. Both films contain a blend of mystery and family and social drama, although Parasite is overall much darker and well merits its thriller genre. Broker exhibits beautiful artistry and social commentary like Parasite, but …
Continue reading “Broker” Versus “Parasite”: A Comparison of Two Award-Winning Korean Dramas
Have you ever thought about the fact that Easter should be an even bigger deal than Christmas? The goal of Christmas, after all, was Easter. Christ was born so that he could live a sinless life, die in the place of sinners, and rise again as a promise of eternal life to those who believe …
Continue reading Six Books That Remind Us of the Joy of Easter
I invented this recipe as a Christmas treat for family and friends, and it was such a hit, I decided to write the instructions down and share it for other peanut butter chocolate fans. This recipe offers a lighter alternative to Muddy Buddy mix recipes, but with a similar flavor profile and significantly less mess. …
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For me at least, every poetry journey starts in an unexpected way. If you’re reading this after watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo on Netflix, then your journey to this spot had the same origin as mine a few months ago: the brief quote from the poem “Charcoal” by Ahn Do-Hyun that appears in Episode 12 of …
Continue reading Poems for the Autumn: A Collection of Korean Poetry by Ahn Do-Hyun
“Write what you know” is a piece of advice I’ve often followed, but I never thought it would lead me here. If your struggles are similar to mine, though, I hope the tips below will prove useful. These ideas apply to any cards you receive—birthday, Christmas, thank you notes, or even blank cards that you …
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Have you ever wondered if it mattered whether someone was unorganized versus disorganized? If this topic leaves you uninterested (or quickly becoming disinterested), then read no further. Intrigued? Read on. The prefix dis- has multiple meanings: “not; absence of; opposite of; undo, do the opposite of; deprive of; remove; free from; used as an intensive.” …
Continue reading Un-clear Dis-tinctions: The Difference Between Two Prefixes You May Often Confuse
