Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Saturday Eric took me to Lotte Mart (pronounced Lot-tee). It’s Korea’s answer to WalMart. Except imagine WalMart on steroids…massive, mega doses of capitalist-pumping steroids. There’s Lotte World, Lotte Hotels, Lotte Housing, Lotte Galaxy, Lotte Plaza…on & on. It’s more than just food distribution – it’s tourism, construction, heavy chemicals, finance, information services, welfare – you name [...]
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
The last time I saw my stuff…it was all boxed up. The last time I saw my stuff…it was January… in Oklahoma… in the middle of an ice storm. The last time I saw my stuff…Maggie Moo was lying on the couch – still a slick-faced puppy innocently unaware of the perils of toilet paper addiction. The [...]
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Meet “Little One”. (Ok…so that’s not her real name. She has a Korean one – I just don’t know what it is.) She’s our custodian’s dog & this was the look she would give me & Maggie when we first arrived in Korea 2 months ago – distant, cold, calculating. She’s an outside dog, never groomed, [...]