Posted in From Left to Write on Jan 31st, 2012
As a child, I didn’t really know my parents’ life stories. Heck, even today, I’m still pretty fuzzy on the details of their lives before they immigrated to the United States in 1971. They have never openly discussed how they grew up, how they met and married, or their lives in Korea. The details of [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Oct 25th, 2011
The last time my heart was broken was in June of 1993. The guy was my college boyfriend, Terry. We’d been together for most of our junior year. He was beautiful, he made me laugh, and he was going to be my husband. So I thought. On that day in June of 1993, Terry took [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Jun 27th, 2011
Ten years ago today, The Husband and I were three days away from tying the knot. I remember not-so-fondly those final hours before The Big Day. The busy-ness of confirming vendors, going over the schedule, putting out small fires, etc, stressed me out! Every detail about how the day would go was checked and double [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Apr 12th, 2011
Ten years ago, I was 29 years old. (Oh horrors! Now you know my age!) Ten years ago, I was planning my wedding. I was sure it would be the best day ever. I busied myself with every detail of joining our lives together. My thoughts were only on the two of us, our wedding [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Apr 4th, 2011
The Husband knows that some day, soon after we have finally moved into our forever home, we will buy a fig tree and plant it in our back yard. You see, I have a not-so-secret love affair with fresh figs. It started rather innocently. It was at my first job. I sat down to lunch [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Mar 7th, 2011
The Husband and I spent a year living in a small town in Japan. Our jobs attached to a local military installation, but our home was in the town. Many of our memories are of our comedic struggles to adapt to the people and culture, as well as learning to be parents (BabyBito was born [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Sep 26th, 2010
Sometimes when I don’t like the way things are going in my little world, I imagine running away with my family to The Middle of Nowhere. In The Middle of Nowhere, the loves of my life and I would live without outside influences. Nothing or nobody would corrupt my beautiful children as The Husband and [...]
Posted in From Left to Write on Jul 6th, 2010
This week, two things occurred that made the wheels in my head spin (well, spin faster than usual). First, my Korean mother was here visiting (all in all it was a great visit. We only almost got into a big blow-out fight one time!). Second, I was reading the latest greatest book for my online [...]
Posted in svmoms on Jun 1st, 2010
The Husband and I married nine years ago this month. I was 29 years old and muuuuuuch older than I imagined I would be when I finally walked down the aisle. I mean, I did not go to college to collect an MRS. degree. But I figured I would meet the guy I was going to [...]
Posted in svmoms on Mar 4th, 2010
The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman chronicles the author’s unique journey of helping her daughter, as well as an examination of her own beliefs and life. Edelman’s daughter, Maya, gains a new friend–an imaginary one–by the name of Dodo. We are well-versed in imaginary friends in this house, as Cupcake currently has twenty-two “imagination [...]
Posted in svmoms on Jan 28th, 2010
Often I feel as though I have no special talent. Nothing that is unique or that Wows others. I don’t create masterpieces of art. I struggle to show even a speck of originality in anything I do in my everyday, ho-hum, mundane life. So it was with great interest that I read Coco Chanel & [...]
Posted in svmoms on Oct 12th, 2009
Imagine your family for a moment. Your entire family. Husband, children, parents, sisters/brothers and their spouses, their children. Now imagine all of those people spending a week together. In a house. Forced togetherness. Yes, you read that right. For a WHOLE WEEK. Did you just shudder? The thought of spending a whole week with my [...]
I do not plan to give birth ever again. Nonetheless, the book Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth by Dr. Mark Sloan intrigued me. Dr. Sloan weaves the history of modern birth with his experience of attending 3,000 births. I couldn’t help but think of my own childbirth [...]
Posted in svmoms on Jun 24th, 2009
Afte reading the book Testimony by Anita Shreve, I began thinking of all the moments in which I knew my life would never be the same: The moment I looked at the-boyfriend-who-would-become-The-Husband and knew he is the man I’ll spend the rest of my life with… The moment I saw two pink lines on that [...]
Posted in svmoms on Apr 28th, 2009
“To you, embarrassment is the extreme dismay that arises when something you’ve so desperately hoped to conceal is revealed–and not by your own choosing.” Much to Your Chagrin: A Memoir of Embarrassment by Suzanne Guillette The other day, I was telling my friend a funny story about something Cupcake had done. I happened to glance over [...]
