Dears, This morning I leaped out of bed to get downstairs for my two eggs, toast and coffee. Actually, it wasn’t the food that I was excited to see, it was the ebullient enunciating lady-chef. And there she was in her white-clothed glory ready to greet me. “GOOD MORNING DARLING!” she called out to me….

Dears, I arrived in the Land of the Morning Calm at 9:09 p.m. In my first three hours here, albeit in the evening, I’m pretty calm myself. My long flight from Chicago to Tokyo was flawless and, dare I say, delightful. I decided not to take an Ativan for anxiety because I realized that taking…

Dears, I’ve jotted down a quick to-do list for my time in Seoul. Four days with one big thing to tackle each day. Note that visiting a bathhouse is tops. The Korean Jimjilbang was a saving grace last time I was on the Peninsula. One place where I felt really comfortable despite being an Amazon…