Let's face it. Family home pages are rarely more entertaining to non-family members than home videos or slide shows.

What we originally hoped to do with this site are do four things:

• First, give an insight to anyone who may be interested about ourselves (yawn!);
• Second, serve as a common web site for friends and associates of the USC IBEAR business grad school and US Peace Corps/Korea;
• Third, share some of the interesting (and weird) things we have encountered here and been passed on to us by friends; and
• Fourth, for anyone thinking of visiting or living in Tokyo or Seoul, this site shares a perspective of an international (American/Korean) family who has found ways to work, be educated and otherwise live on our own without the support of an expatriate package for nearly twenty years in Japan and Korea.

Today the boys have flown the nest but on rare occasions we have an accidental family reunion when some or most - but never all - of us get together.  The last such event was in French Polynesian around New Year 2005 for my brother Fred's marriage to Tatiana.  Below is a commemorative shot of the get-together: