For Christmas, we went to Illinois to stay with my folks.  It had been a few years since we had done this and when I stepped into their home, I found myself thrown back in time.  I had forgotten all the crafts I had made for them over the years and it was wonderful to see my crafting Christmas past.  I wish I had kept some of these for myself when I created ...

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Traditionally Christmas is a quiet one for me here in Korea. It usually involves waking late in an attempt to recover from what ever festivities occurred the night before. Then there is the ceremonial phoning of the folks back home. The fact that my parents have made an enormous leap into the 20th century of late and actually have Skype, makes it all that much easier, and its nice to see everyone, ...

  Enjoying the Christmas Season at Pizza Peel in Itaewon, Saturday night. Kudos to photographer Billy Bob.

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So if you haven't heard ready, I am moving to Daegu. In fact, as I write, I am winding my way through the Korean countryside on the KTX headed south.It was six years ago, almost to the day, that I arrived in Seoul, fresh from the Korean countryside, with a bag and two boxes. I leave having sent 11 boxes, 4 bags and various sundry goods ahead of me. I arrived in Seoul with no real idea as to what I ...

I was out the other day shoveling the coating of snow we had received the night before when I noticed a couple bird flocking to the huge tree in our front yard.  As I shoveled back and forth down our driveway, I noticed more and more birds in the tree.What surprised me the most was that I was basically scraping the driveway with each pass making a loud scraping noise.  Usu ...

Last Friday, the day of the horrific killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School I went to Noah, our grandson's 1st grade class to teach them how to make this polymer clay ornament.  I thank God that I had errands to run before the class and that I did not know what had occurred until I returned home later that day.  I don't know how I would have gotten through the class without tears and s ...

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I don't know what it is about this 2012 Christmas season but everywhere I go, I find this.  Toys that poo.  These were in my local Joann's.I found this pooping penguin at Macy's of all place.  We were in South Korea last Christmas so maybe this is nothing new to anyone else.  Poo has always been a big thing in Korea.  There are tons of children's books on it, poo stuffed a ...