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Weekend Bits

2 weekend features: A month long feature in Elevate Magazine. and a review of a local hot spot. As I perused through the shelves of my local library, trying to find a Frida Kahlo biography, I stumbled onto this gem and it worked out to be the best book I’ve read all year. It’s a..read more

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My Koreanness…The Good, The Beautiful, The Scary, The Sad

I promise to return to food tomorrow but I’m never one to hush when something’s on my mind. It’s a flaw, they say but who are “they” anyways? I love being Korean. Even though I grew up in a traditional household, conversing in my native tongue, eating Kimchi with everything morning, noon, and night, the..read more

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