Living in South Korea, I always thought the worst person to be would be a teenaged girl /early 20's woman. My sister-in-law’s husband tried to kill her and didn’t even get arrested. The police determined it was “just a misunderstanding”. Such a backwards country where women are concerned.

This was a great read. I enjoy Dwayne Johnson’s movies and follow him on Instagram, and I think I like him mostly because of that vulnerability and insecurity that sometimes peeks through in the roles he plays and in his Instagram posts.

My first apartment in Seoul had a huge metal hook on the wall, and beside it an emergency escape kit that included a rope ladder. Apparently, if fire broke out, I was expected to attach the ladder to the giant wall hook and shimmy my fat ass down three floors to the ground. It was an 8-story building, and all the…

I had a reduction in 1995 and the relief afterwards was unbelievable. As a survivor of sexual abuse as a young girl, and years of sexual harassment as a teen/young woman, it was truly a kind of psychological weight off my shoulders, so to speak, once I had the surgery. Honestly, I had hated my huge breasts and blamed…