[…] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic.

We often stuff seasoned ground meat inside it like stuffed cucumber and then red-cook the whole thing.

With me, a bird in the hand and a cutey in a bed is worth dozens of them in a bush you can't reach

China Earthquake Networks Center said Monday the magnitude 1.3 earthquake occurred in the evening in Hunchun. The city is in northeastern Jilin province’s Yanbian prefecture, known for its large ethnic Korean population, and borders North Korea and Russia.