Subject librarians in North America Even though I was encouraged by my friends that I could study abroad taking my children, if I couldn't imagine anything, I wouldn't have been there. In those days, I was working as a sales and marketing …

Field of Mugi (Mugibatake) In August 2003, I was on a flight with my children to Chicago for my study in Pittsburgh. It had been 10 months since my Korean-mom friend suggested that I should go abroad. Although at first it didn't seem like …

Is it for my children, for myself, or for both? It was October 2002 when I started to check out how to study abroad with my children according to the Korean mom friend’s suggestion. One of the other mothers I know who is Korean told me to …

Korean mom My Korean-mom friend The mom friend who suggested that I go abroad with my four children was a Korean mother living near my home. It had been 12 years before when we met first in a neighborhood park. I was letting my son play th…

I was only 36 when my husband passed away In September, 2002, my husband passed away. He had been hospitalized for about 5 months but didn't recover to the end. He was only 42, too young to die. He and I had four children, two boys and two…

Want to be a proper breadwinner? Being a single mom is very challenging especially when you have more than two kids and do not get paid enough.One of the solutions is to "update" yourself to become a proper breadwinner, but how can you do …