Archive for July, 2010

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Room with a View

One of the things about life in rural South Korea that you can count on is mosquitoes. Especially when your backyard bumps right up against the rice paddies. It makes trying to enjoy our rarity of a backyard near impossible. I had hoped AAFES would ship in those little pop-up gazebos…and they did – at [...]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Camera Shy

This little kitty would like to say hello. But he’s a little camera shy. You see, he has a funny face & people make fun of him all the time. [he wants you to promise not to laugh] But I think he’s adorable. And I think I’ll name him Charlie….after Mr. Chaplin. Although that wasn’t the first name that [...]

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

A Long Way to Get There

[get here late?...take a step back] So there I was…timidly grinning at the dozen or more gun-toting faces around me. I looked at the Secret Service guy & basically said, “You do your thing – I’ll do mine.” I gave him the quick run-down of how many buses were coming, how many people would need to be [...]