Life & Reflection

What Chess Taught Me About Patience and Strategy: A Journalist’s Reflection I didn’t grow up playing chess. In my household […]

On Cooking for One: The Unexpected Joy of Solo Meals There’s a peculiar loneliness that settles over a kitchen when […]

Why I Deleted Social Media and What Happened Next Three years ago, at sixty-two, I did something that felt almost […]

The Japanese Art of Kintsugi: Finding Beauty in Broken Things There’s a moment in every journalist’s career when you realize […]

Why I Read One Book a Week and How You Can Too There’s a question I get asked often at […]

Finding Purpose After Career: A Journey Beyond the Newsroom I sat in my apartment on my first Monday as a […]

The Case for Handwriting in a Digital World There’s a peculiar silence that falls over a room when someone pulls […]

What My Garden Taught Me About Patience and Growth I spent thirty years chasing deadlines in Seoul’s newsrooms—racing against the […]

The Art of Conversation in an Age of Texts and Tweets There’s a photograph I keep on my desk—not a […]

Letters to My Younger Self: What I Wish I Knew at 25 There’s a peculiar ache that comes with aging—not […]