Category Archives: TWIG

Non-fiction: Japanese women seeking Seoul mates

This was lying in the dust. Intended as a companion article for this previously post on Japanese women and their relationships.
I cringe at the easy pun of the title, but here is another interesting article about the dating scene for Japanese women. Actually, this reminds me of the Ester Pan article about Asian men [...]

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Dear blog…

I miss swimming. If it were easier I would sneak into the university’s pools. Instead of scheming, I drove over to the closest fitness center with a pool. It was rather dark and visibly old; dingy wouldn’t be the right word but quaint wouldn’t work either. No one was at the reception desk when I [...]

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Non-fiction: The Searchers

From the New Yorker’s recent special issue on Education. It was full of interesting articles about education in general, but nothing as scathing as I would’ve liked critiquing curriculum or anything like that.
This one is about Deep Springs, an intense junior college that’s been around for quite some time yet is still pretty radical in [...]

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