Lunar New Year in Shanghai 2015

When I decided to move to Korea more than seven years ago, I harbored a wish and a dream: maybe I could visit the fabled city of Shanghai, located just across the Yellow Sea. But until recently, I was not prepared to go there. I needed a...

Acapulco, 1984

Having achieved a measure of stability in my life—a steady job, a car (a blue Volkswagen), the beginnings of a journalism career and a UT grad student named Lulu as my main squeeze—it seemed that taking a vacation would not be...