Monthly Archives: December 2011

An End of Year Love Letter

Marcel Proust is a tough read, no doubt about it. That’s why I only read his quotes. “Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” I so vividly recall … Read more

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A Magical Holiday Night in South Korea

Parachuting Santa.

The holidays in a foreign country provide for some mixed emotions. On the one hand, you miss your friends and family and the insanity of going home and living in your old room again – even for a couple of days – and then driving back across the frozen destitution of Iowa and Nebraska to … Read more

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