Author Jung Yun Ten years ago, during the height of North Dakota's oil boom, my husband’s job at Motorola took him to Williston, ND to oversee a project building out the area’s cellular network. The weeks he spent on that project were some of the most difficult of his life, and his descriptions of the…
I am a firm believer that pets enrich our lives by providing comfort, companionship, purpose, and a whole host of other intangible, but still very real, benefits. If you are lucky enough to be on the receiving end of an animal’s love, then you don’t need me to tell you what’s what because you already…
What would you do if you lost your home - the home where you raised your children, the source of your livelihood, and where you had lain roots for over twenty years? And in the same week you found yourself homeless and simultaneously without income, what if you also learned that the love of your…
Who doesn’t love a good adventure story? Especially if it’s a story of man pushed to his ultimate physical and psychological limits. Even better is if the tale involves danger, heroics, intrigue, insanity, and betrayal; and what's best of all is if the story is true. A recently published book that fits the bill on…
There are family secrets, and then there are family secrets of the Sackler variety: obfuscations that span years, decades, and even generations; the ramifications of which irrevocably changed the pharmaceutical industry, indirectly led to the opioid crisis in America, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and shattered families of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. These…
Spring, to me, means the start of baseball season. With two sons who play and a husband who is pretty much obsessed with the game, it feels like I spend about 40% of my waking hours during the months of April-July watching baseball, talking about baseball, and planning my life (and meals) around, you guessed…
The past year has been one of the most difficult and memorable years of our lifetime. Even those of us who haven’t suffered direct losses as a result of covid-19 have lost out in so many other ways - whether it is a loss of human connections, experiences, events, or opportunities. So when I heard…
When you pick up Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's book The Undocumented Americans, you might wonder if the author is personally affected by this subject in some way. Perhaps she has close family - a grandparent or an uncle - who is undocumented, perhaps her parents, maybe it is even herself. The real story, as is often…
On January 7, 1969, a young Harvard anthropology PhD candidate named Jane Sanders Britton was murdered. There were whispers that the young graduate student was having an affair with a married Harvard professor of archeology. It was said that the death scene was staged in a way that indicated the murderer had knowledge of ancient…
Ramen is a bit of an obsession in my family, so much so that if a wish-granting food fairy could magically whisk us off to any restaurant in the U.S. of our choosing, chef David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar might just top the list. In his recently-published memoir, Eat a Peach, David Chang reveals the…
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