An Old Dog Attempts to Learn Some Middle-Aged Tricks Or, How I Attempted for the Third Time to Start (and Continue) a Blog As I begin this blog, I wonder how long it will be before I abandon it. Twice before I have started blogs; I think my record number of blog entries thus far has probably been three. My enthusiastic but swiftly changing interests carry me on to new fascinations and I leave the blogs behind--and I grew up before the internet era, I am pretty much an old stick-in-the-mud, and the technological requirements of blog-writing have left me gnashing my teeth and abandoning the blogs sooner rather than later. Even so, here I go again. Three generations of my family and I have been watching Korean tv dramas together now since the autumn of 2018--in person when we can, and via Zoom during the times of COVID lockdown. It's become a family bonding experience par excellence and has given us a great deal of joy. As we talk and ent...