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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A week ago.  The day started out nice.  Sun Su and Ooseung were playing with the other neighborhood kids while I sat in the driveway studying review books. “Tell me I’m fat,” Billy the Bully said to my six-year old girl. “What?” she looked at him funny. “Just tell me I’m fat, Ooseung.” “… You’re [...]

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“You need to go to sleep, sir,” I said laying down next to my 7-year old son. “Appah, what did you do when you were eleven?” “Eleven?  I guess I was in … sixth grade?  Don’t tell anyone, but I used to sell Jolly Ranchers in school.” “Oh, the red and the grape ones?” “All [...]

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Oh Lord, how long has it been?  (Don’t worry, I didn’t convert to theism in my time off, just an expression.)  Since Christmas and it’s February already?  I seriously thought I was on an update roll in December too.  Pfft. Well, that’s just pathetic but I can assure you, I’m not done with this journal [...]

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“Let’s go to that Japanese restaurant you like,” Amy said on my birthday. “Later, grams,” I said to my mom as she watched the kids. It was one of the first heavy snows this month.  The downtown lights made the kind of lonely neon Christmas I like.  The sushi restaurant was empty in an eerie [...]

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