An unlikely marriage proposal on the ferry
Then he looked at me carefully and said: "Marry me. I need a woman to love and look after."
Most proposals involve some build-up. A dinner. A ring. At a minimum, knowledge of each other's names. This one was offered like a perfectly reasonable solution to a logistical problem, sandwiched between existential corner analysis and what came next, which was a spirited attempt to guess my nationality.
E.P.
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A Timely Visit From the Other Side
I felt that hug like it was real. I felt him hugging me. I felt the love. I felt that everything was going to be all right. That feeling of being in my father's arms, like a child again, feeling the warmth and that particular smell of my father.
E.P.
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The Minister, the Underwear, and the Improbable Life of my Mother Anthoula
My mother stood on a stranger’s doorstep in Athens, clutching a paper bag containing twelve pairs of underwear, and wept....
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The Yeosu Kimchi Chronicles: A Cross-Border Spicy Adventure
The kimchi had travelled further than most conference papers ever will, crossing borders, surviving customs inspections, and achieving what all good research should: connecting people across cultures through shared experience, one fermented cabbage leaf at a time.
E.P.
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The Iron Lady Lives Again: A Midnight Encounter with Destiny in Busan
Because sometimes, just sometimes, a Korean fortune teller holds up a mirror that reflects not just who you are, but who you might become. And if that person happens to be the reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher, well—stranger things have happened in the grand theater of travel.
E.P.
Sep 14, 2025
