Eric Archive

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 15th, 2010

No, I’m Not Crying

Korea is called the Land of the Morning Calm. And there’s a saying here among the American rank, file & families…the Land of Not Quite Right. That whole ‘close, but no cigar’ bit. Trying to recreate the American experience, take the 4th of July for example,Ā on foreign soil can never be quite right though. It’s [...]

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

The Gift, pt. 2

[pictures of a neighborhood farm] So back to the story of theĀ gift. I was getting what turned out to beĀ a partialĀ at-home-spa treatment for free! I raced around cleaning the house of all the embarrassing left-out dishes, scattered dog toys & dining table junk. I didn’t want them walking in to see a messy house. Which, [...]