The day after watching a rerun of Jim Carey going nuts in the Grinch’s big screen debut, we are standing amidst a rare November...

Avocadoes are apparently among the most cherished of vegetables, if something with a fat content higher than beef can be called a...

Anytime you are faced with a story that begins in the bathroom you have to suspect that it might be exceedingly odd, perhaps even a tad...

This is the prologue to our relocation from Seoul to North Carolina. It deals not with our arrival in that great state but with our...

The Prize You are now reading words written by the winner of second prize in the Korea National Writing contest. Actual money is awarded,...

A long work week ended late last Friday with the Road Gods bestowing upon us weary car dwellers one final gift in the form of a large...

(Watching the problems in Atlanta last week reminded me of a similar event several years ago in Raleigh) We in central North Carolina...

(about 10 years ago; the great ice storm came to North Carolina) I’m not sure which of the original sins we unintentionally violated, but...

I spent seven years of my life in Singapore, the island-state just south of the Malay Peninsula and just north of the equator. Singapore...

In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps...

(After a little less than three years in Seoul we departed for a new life in North Carolina. This was my diary entry.) End Game And so...

The Desert Phoenix Arizona was constructed on the desert, displacing millions of lizards and tumbleweeds and leaving them homeless. You...

PushmePullu In Singapore I worked with some brilliant medical researchers. One of the study areas was a property called “tensegrity”....

Sunrise Jam I had totally forgotten about the phenomena of Daylight Saving Time (DST). DST requires that clocks in your very home be...

(I have been writing for some time on our lives in North Carolina…) Buy Me According to the radio — that purveyor of all knowledge and...

(I had an opportunity to visit New Orleans a few years before Katrina. These are my recollections at the time. In looking back some of...

Long ago I studied a computer language called LISP and ever since have remained fascinated by all things self-referential. LISP has been...

As a child I would wonder what all those adults did “at work”. I would see legions of them walk into an office building in the morning...

When we moved to Seoul we opted to stay in a service apartment on the grounds of the Swiss Grand Hotel; not far from the Bank’s main...

While living and working in Singapore, I was privileged to occasionally travel to Beijing to work with our Chinese partners on medical...