It is Wednesday February 16, 2006 5:00pm, at least here in Seoul Korea. Flying here from Nashville Tennessee gave me the feeling of defying all boundaries of time. In the process of the 28-hour journey I only saw the night once as it faded into day the morning we left. Our “over night” flight to Seoul only constituted as night if one considers the lowered blinds and faded lights of a jet plane as capturing the true nature of the nocturnal. Min Jung and I left early Monday morning from Nashville and flew 1 hour to St Louis. The plane landed [View Full Entry]

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With only 14 days until I leave for S. Korea, I have been busy readying books on Korean history, war, culture, politics, religion, etc. There is little, I find, that can truly prepare me for a place I have never experienced. Here is what has been on my mind these last few days: “Home is where the heart is.” Or so I have heard. At one point, after my family moved to Middle Tennessee, I thought I had left my heart in sunny California, somewhere on Glory Lane in a castle made of redwoods or possibly even in a thicket of [View Full Entry]

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