Daytime moon I'm on my way to the forest. A jet plane is passing noisily overhead. While looking up at the sky I see a daytime moon at the end of the planes vapor trail. It's a half moon and it looks lonely like an uninvited party guest.
Legendary painter Van Gogh Long ago, my fascination for the legendary painter Vincent van Gogh was raised by book No.3 in the series "Painting & painters, complete collection Western fine art," published by the Hankook Ilbo, a sister paper of The Korea Times in 1973. The boo..
An insignificant thing Earth is but a small, trifling planet when seen among the innumerable stars and planets in the universe.
Now is an age of integrated thinking Winter has begun, but let me get back to this summer for a moment
Korea needs to expand grants in overseas aid Korea became a member of Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Nov. 25 in 2009.
'I cannot live without you' I cannot live without you. This is the title of a drama which ran in Korea recently. I cannot say on which days it ran but cable channels have the uncanny ability to collect them and throw them at you over the weekend.
Gratitude for my guardian angels A recent article, ``Guardian Angels, written by Kim Ae-ran and published in The Korea Times moved me to think about myself.
Stress and healing There are two interrelated words for mind control we often hear from mass media.
Race in Korea: bad, but better? Shin Chul-ho's "Racial discrimination in hiring teachers" reminded me of a pleasant Korean-American teacher I worked with in the 1990s who said she was delighted to meet me
Red wire, blue wire Imagine a dream: You are a bomb demolition expert seated in front of an eyeball- popping contraption in the basement suite of a house at Jane and Finch in North York near Toronto. The neighboring area has been evacuated for three hundred meters. Ne..
Means cannot justify ends As the frost of winter arrives, the maple leaves wither and fall. I watched quite a few students stride along corridors within a school wearing North Face winter coats. I have also seen a TV report that Korean teenagers wear them like a second unif..
Racial discrimination in hiring teachers Once I co-taught English with a Korean-Canadian woman teacher. As the expiration of her term of service was approaching, I had to employ a new native English teacher. I asked the principal what type of native speaker's background he wanted. He pref..
Odd jobs and idle thoughts In good American terminology Im a homemaker and a grandmother. I have been doing domestic consumption work for over 50 years, which included preparing meals and washing dishes three times almost every day, seven days a week, plus child and grandc..
Qualifications of educators Many, many years ago when I was in undergrad school, my classmates and I would often talk about how the real learning would begin once we graduated and obtained our pieces of paper.
Guardian angels Have you ever felt that somebody is constantly praying for you? How consoling it is to feel that somebody is praying for me and taking good care of me beyond time and space!
Bose and Einstein One of the best - known analogies to explain how the Higgs Boson mechanism works was proposed in 1993 by David Miller, a physicist at University College London.
Why Obama won Math. At its coldest and most distilled truth, President Barack Obama defeated Governor Mitt Romney by sheer numbers.
