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    Risk and opportunity: Campaign manager

    Around the time of my last post, I became a campaign manager for a young man running for a local election in my hometown. I'd been...

    Trade School and Education Reform

    Recently, I've talked to a plumber and a barber. They lean on different sides of the aisle, but they both want education reform. Their...

    The Moral Economy

    What I've learned most in my time canvassing is that my community is more diverse than I gave it credit for which is both inspiring and...

    Conversation with the Alt-Right

    So I'm knocking on doors in a street not too far from the hill I live on trying to spread the word of the left to my red, red neighbors....

    Resume Gap

    The reality of post-grad unemployment is that if you don't stay busy every single day, you are likely to take the kind of shortcuts that...

    New Goals

    The struggle I have had lately is trying to understand the line between publishing an opinion and publishing the truth. They may not be...

    Seoul Survivor: Kochinglish

    You got Konglish. You got Chinglish. But I bet y’all have never heard of Kochinglish. Well, that’s how I talk with North Korean...

    Seoul Survivor: RIP

    Which country am I describing? One that has threatened the world with nuclear arms. One with an arguably crazy leader who is a fat cat...

    Seoul Survivor: $

    You grow up your entire life thinking, no, knowing that North Koreans are some of the poorest, most malnourished, most evil bad guys in...
    Seoul Survivor: One week abroad

    Seoul Survivor: One week abroad

    My Korean is trash. I grew up in Tennessee, and my high school didn't exactly offer Korean as a foreign language. In fact, I spent a long...

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