I really didn’t like the color of my shiny new car back in 2004.  I wanted green but that would take months, the salesman said, and I was impatient.   The lot only had silver, black, or red.  The world needed another black or red car like it needed another term with G.W. Bush, so I [...]

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The kids volunteered to be in the church Christmas Eve play last week.  The next morning, they had changed their minds but like they said in Eden, “You can’t take it back.” On the fateful eve, Sun Su narrated well.  Ooseung was supposed to play Jesus’ ring girl carrying a “NO VACANCY” sign across the [...]

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Summer is officially over and the days are already getting cold here. Just two weeks ago, I clearly remember sitting in the driveway, feeling the breeze flowing over my skin strangely and perfectly.  Watching Amy and the kids biking around the cul-de-sac isle like a carousel.  My son, with his slightly oversized helmet and bicycle, [...]

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AMY:  “Babe, listen to what happened at work today, you’ll like this.” ME:  “Uh oh, what?” AMY:  “So I was seeing this old lady in the clinic with the doc and she was going on about how she has trouble with certain foods.  Then she says, ‘But I like Chinese food in small amounts,’ and [...]

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“I know why they’re having the wedding at 7 o’clock,” Amy said as she drove. I listened as I took a picture of the giant Uniroyal tire. “So they don’t have to serve food,” Amy complained. Corean church without food?  Heaven forbid. Five years ago, before we moved, we went to Corean church … religiously, [...]

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