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.
Sep 16
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
The Last Bow in Akakina
There she was. Still bowing. Alone, by the restaurant entrance. Her small frame, held in that same respectful bend. A silhouette against the dusk light.
E.P.
Aug 1
The Japanese Cowboy: An Encounter with Amami's “Zorba the Buddha”
“I would like you to enjoy the wholeness of your being, when your body, your heart, your intellect all fall in tune. I have called that...
E.P.
Mar 25, 2024
Island re-encounters
My first encounter with the Amami islands, in the south of the Japanese archipelago, was a rather unforgettable experience. I landed on...
E.P.
Oct 13, 2023
The “People” Pencil Cases of Bruce 2nd
Bruce Lee Torizawa's studio in Kyoto’s Arashiyama district is a cornucopia of patterns, colours, fabrics, images and symbols. But no...
E.P.
Apr 5, 2022
The Female Pilot
Back in 2010, I was sitting at the Charlotte, NC airport on a layover between my flights from Atlanta to San Francisco. The area at my...
L.K.
Sep 9, 2021
A Mongolian “Jigit" Driver Encounter
During the spring break of 2002, I went to Mongolia to lead training workshops for the Ulan Bator state university teachers and students...
L.K.
Aug 17, 2021
Xing - Chance Encounter
In early September 1996, I accompanied my wife to an international conference for which she had been asked to present a paper and join a...
D.T.
Jul 21, 2021
A taste of uisge-beatha
June 21, Culloden Moor Inn, Eastern Highlands, Scotland I walked into the empty pub and tried to adjust my eyes to the shadowy interior....
E.P.
Jul 21, 2021
