memoir

‘This is why some people just stay married.’ As a newly single mom, life was an endless marathon. Then I took a summer-long breather.

The produce bargain rack is where I play a game with myself. It’s the wild-card ingredient not on my shopping list, but soon on my dinner table.

We were inseparable, just like in Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale, Little Women. But then one of us got sick — and the storyline changed.

Unlike the Netflix heroine, I did it as a 30-something Korean Canadian woman. Twelve years later, here’s what I tell people who fantasize about moving to the City of Lights.

“Despite all efforts by the Canadian government and the churches, our culture is still intact.”