One day at a time In my last column I wrote about "Learning to Die."
The sounds of silence I just got my voice back after a case of laryngitis that lasted well over a week. For a couple of days it was so bad I could barely produce a sound, and thereafter whatever sounds I did manage to produce sounded like they were coming from a frog, w..
Water, water everywhere Many things go over my head. I have no comprehension of how my word processor manages to save my articles and let me retrieve them later on, or how the article gets through the Internet to The Korea Times editor so it can make it into the newspaper.
Our daily 7-ups (4) This past July 4, our cousin took us out on a boat ride around Miamis Biscayne Bay and we got to see the splendid fireworks from the water as different towns competed to celebrate Americas independence. While we were chatting on the boat, one o..
We cannot live by bread alone An American psychologist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), in his 1943 paper ``A Theory of Human Motivation, described what he called the hierarchy of needs.
Walk the talk The other day six friends and I joined 300 or so other people on the American Cancer Society's annual fund-raising 5-km walk ``Walk the Walk in the village of Miami Shores.
Buddy check We recently returned from a trip to Turkey with a tour group. During the orientation our Turkish guide introduced the novel (to me) concept of a ``buddy check. (At first I thought he had said ``body check but I understand thats something else ..
Hatch, match and dispatch On a recent trip to London, we rounded up the usual suspects of typical tourist activity. Besides taking in a couple of shows and roaming around that very walkable city enjoying the great architecture of bygone days, we took a boat ride on the Tham..
Vast wasteland May 9 marks the 50th anniversary of the famous ``vast wasteland speech given by Newton Minow (1926- ), then the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Vital Speeches selected Minows speech as one of the 25 speeches that..
What makes you tick? I do not know how to ride a bike. So last Christmas, I asked my husband to buy me a tricycle. For the past four months it has been great riding this tricycle with my two dogs in the basket and exploring my neighborhood park and the path parallel to..
You are what you speak A good friend surprised me one day at lunch by pulling out a piece of paper he carries around and showing it to me. It was a quotation of the late President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): ``Live simply, care deeply, speak kindly. Leave the rest to God..
Our Daily 7-Ups (3) This is my fourth year as a columnist for The Korea Times, and this is the third installment of ``Our Daily 7-Ups. I guess I am continuing a tradition here.
All for one, one for all One of the most entertaining novels I read while growing up was ``The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870).
Thinking outside of the box On a recent visit to Manhattan, I met up with an old friend from my Hong Kong days. We had a good chat and saw a special exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, ``Picasso Guitars: 1912-1914, a stunning presentation of dozens of his cubist paintin..
A matter of time Moving is a chore. Recently I spent a week getting cabinets and wall units added to our kitchen, bedroom and bathroom to increase organizational and storage space.
Gadgets Few would disagree that the wide availability of computers and other gadgets has improved our daily life immensely by making all sorts of things get done with greater speed, ease and fun.
Learning to die in Miami Some years ago, I read ``Waiting for Snow in Havana, a memoir by Carlos Eire, a Cuban boy who left Fidel Castros Cuba in 1962 at the age of 11 in the ``Operation Peter Pan airlift of over 14,000 children to the United States. This book brought..
