Afterthoughts

Erica from America: Afterthoughts by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 4/22/2015) Note: This is the last essay in the series, “Are You My Mother?” about my trip to Korea to search for…

Not Found

9. Not Found by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 4/15/15). For Korean adoptees searching for their birth families, it is more common not to find than to find. According to my…

What About Sally?

  8. What About Sally? by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 4/8/15) I am no longer in contact with Sally. I am very, very sorry about that because she did so…

“I Can Feel Your Sadness”

  7. Seoul – “I Can Feel Your Sadness” by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 4/2/15)  My trip was coming to an end. I had started in Seoul, sat in Tapgol Park, traveled…

Seoul – Days One, Two, Three, and Five

  6. Seoul – Days One, Two, Three, and Five by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womantaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 3/25/15) Two days after my conversation with George (see my previous story, In Preparation for Pohang),…

In Preparation for Pohang

  5. In Preparation for Pohang by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 3/18/15) If the trip to Pohang had not produced the outcome I had wanted, it was not for lack of…

A Cold Case Reinvestigated

  4. Pohang – A Cold Case Reinvestigated by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 3/11/15) I had said good-bye to Adam and Micah, the two young men I met in Tapgol Park…

In Pohang, A Baby Girl Was Born

  3. In Pohang, A Baby Girl Was Born by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 3/4/2015) All my life, I thought I had been born in Seoul. But once I started…

Why Did You Wait So Long?

  2. “Why Did You Wait So Long?” by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 2/25/15) I was in Korea to search for my birth family. It was the culmination of a…

Seoul – Why Are You Here?

  1. Seoul – “Why Are You Here?” by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 2/18/15) It was eight o’clock on Sunday morning in Seoul, late August, and already it was hazy, humid,…