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),…
Review: The Feast: Not a Lot of Food but Plenty of Voices
The Feast: Not a Lot of Food, but Plenty of Voices by Erica Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, March 18th, 2015) The great “man versus…” conflicts in literature have been: man versus man; man versus…
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…
Encounters with the Jellyfish
The most recent one was in St. Lucia, in late February 2015. I was in the cove between between the two volcanic Pitons, those two pointed green mountains that adorn every tourist brochure for the…
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 Remembrance of Uncle Sam and His Great Escape From the Chinese Communists
On Thursday, March 12, the Moffett family will gather at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey to attend a memorial service for Samuel Hugh Moffett. He was my father’s uncle. My great-uncle. He was…
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,…
Introduction: “Are You My Mother?”
Introduction to “Are You My Mother” Essay Series by Erica L. Moffett (first published at www.womanaroundtown.com on Wednesday, 2/11/15) It must have been serendipity. Last year, in early December, I placed a call to Charlene Giannetti….
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