Once, while I was living in Korea, I thought I was going to die. Okay, that’s not true. Several times while I was living in Korea I thought I was going to die. On two separate occasions the public transit I was riding crashed. The air raid sirens went off every other day the summer […]
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Creative Activism: Ideas for the Maladjusted
Recently, the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Martin Luther King, Jr. led us all to remember him and to take up again his spirit of activism. He is a hero to me not only as a spiritual activist but also as a creative activist. He had pride in his self-described “maladjustment,” and […]
Clean Enough to Swim
I asked him if we could go swimming. Actually, I asked him if he could swim at all. It’s a fair question though because he is from Siberia. If you’re not familiar with Siberia, and honestly who is, here’s a history typical of almost all Siberian cities: a small medieval trading post sits out in […]
Shall We Play A Game?
A month ago, Mike Kleine tweeted out a link to a game he built called Suicide by Jagjaguwar. At first look, it looks like a game I would have played as a kid on my ColecoVision. As you walk around, you start to realize this isn’t like a traditional game, one where there is a […]
Rest Here
Wind, power, speed; we zoom up the mountain to the place that prints the papers, where you can get The Wall Street Journal early. I love the orange motorcycle the way other girls love ponies. At three, I have my own helmet and know to hold on tight, but I must not be holding tight […]
Knowing You’re the Villain
I had no plans for my second Lunar New Year break in South Korea, content to spend my three-week break from teaching sleeping until five. I never knew if it was five in the morning or five in the afternoon, since the January sky was dark for both. This was in humanity’s pre-smart phone days, […]
