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Why I Smiled for Three Days When Someone Thought I Was French.

Someone once told me I seemed French.

I’m not French. I have never been French. South Africa is famous for many things, and France is not among them.

But something happened in my body when they said it — something warm, something . . . in...

8 days ago

Three countries. Three classrooms. Three different consequences for getting it wrong.

My classroom in Changwon, South Korea was about a hundred square meters of organized, neat, and absolutely sans personality.

Large windows to the left. Large whiteboard behind me. One wooden desk per student — no sharing, no clusters, noth...

15 days ago
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My Father Gave Me One Rule. I Only Understood It in Korea.

I was five years old the first time my father told me.

Then fifteen.

Then twenty-five.

Every single time I was single . . . which was, let’s be honest, a recurring state. Papa would find me. At the kitchen table, or on the phone, or at s...

22 days ago
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The most honest thing a government has ever put in writing about me.

There wasn’t enough light around the terminal. All the shops were closed. The concrete ran like an arrow to a grey cement wall behind the last bus, and next to it: a tall dark figure.

Then the streetlight found him — yellow light pouring o...

a month ago
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The Price of Pretty: Heels & Hair are making us dumb?

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In Part 1, I told you about the jarring moment I realize that not all women who run in heels are prostitutes aka skin and clothes. About pearl-white Korean skin versus my South African tan. About how each c...

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    Cross-cultural stories about identity, displacement, and the absurd — from a South African author who lived them in South Korea, Russia, and Germany. The rule here: if you can laugh at it and learn from it, it didn't beat you.

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