Me

Thanks for visiting. This blog was a documentation of my Korean experience. I moved to Seoul in early 2009 and stayed for just over three years. During that time I traveled, taught, wrote, documented, ate, appeared on TV/Radio… and best of all met my wife. I’d like to think I lived life to the fullest, gave the ROK everything I had, made a ton of friends and pissed a few people off. I was also plagiarized repeatedly. That’s success in my book.

We’re now back home in Portland, Oregon aka RIP CITY. Our Korean adopted Yorkshire Terrier is crazy as ever.

Go Blazers.

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My roots are in Portland, Oregon, where I grew up and worked for several years in the corporate world. The economic crisis sent me looking for a new adventure, and I found it in Asia. Now in Korea, I spend my free time putting digit to keyboard. I’m a blogger consistently ranked among the top 10 Korea blogs, was the contributing editor for NEH Magazine, and am a current creative and business mind for hire.

I’ve been called everything from worldly to local.  More accurately, I am someone who feels a strong connection to where I’m from, where I have been and where I am.  Regardless of location, one thing remains the same — I’m a die hard Blazermaniac — some have said, the biggest outside of Portland.

Representing Rip City, currently residing in Seoul.