The lady protagonist of ‘Welcome to the Hyunam Dang Book shop’, set up the bookshop. Minjun is the coffee maker at the book shop. They both gave up regular jobs and had decided that they no longer wanted to live a life based on other peoples expectations. As a character in the book put it “a life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It is not success as defined by society. Still, each day is a successful day thanks to the people around you.”
Tag: fiction
Randy Pausch, ‘The Last Lecture’: The Parent Lottery
I read Randy Pausch’s ‘The Last Lecture’ on a flight. The lecture was on achieving your childhood dreams. He wrote ‘I was born with a winning ticket, a major reason I was able to live out my childhood dreams’. He beautifully describes how he won the ‘parent lottery’ as he got the best, most encouraging … Continue reading Randy Pausch, ‘The Last Lecture’: The Parent Lottery
Death, Death Doula and Death Cafe
Whoever talks about death? It is definitely not something I dwell on, life is worrying enough! Whoever heard of a death doula? Never heard of a birth doula either. Whoever heard about death cafes? Apparently a lot of people as I understood from Mikky Brammer’s new book, The Collected Regrets of Clover!


