Spotless Minds

It’s been a relatively long time since my last post, and there are a few explanations as to why….
1) I’m pretty much on the computer all day at my internship, so it’s the last thing I want to do when I’m not working.
2) Sometimes the online connections at KoRoot are either occupied or finicky.
3) I [...]

Protected: Rainy Saturday

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Why I’m Here~

So this is where the magic happens . . . . Well, actually, this is where I’ve been spending my weekdays, 10 a.m. — 6 p.m. G.O.A.’L, which stands for Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link, is a unique organization in that it provides services for adoptees returning to Korea, but it was founded and continues [...]

Protected: Take me to the funny farm: KAD (and non-KAD) mental health

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My Korean Tongue. Where is it??

Eating breakfast with 외할머니.

Over the course of 9 months in Seattle, I sent my 한국 가족 (Korean family) a handful of e-mails. Some of them were in English, but a few that I sent were actually in Korean, painstakingly composed after lots of trial & error and the help of my Korean teachers/language partners. I [...]

2 Weeks in Korea . . .

Ok. Finally posting. Where to begin, where to begin?? It seems as though things in Korea move at two or three times the rate as events elsewhere. I’ve only been here for two weeks, and already in some ways it’s as though I never left last September.
I’m sitting here in the KoRoot basement, waiting for [...]