Pen Therapy from the OC REGISTER

FOR THE GRANDKIDS:

Sang Bukaty, 60, of Newport Beach writes about growing up in Korea and playing the cello.

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KEVIN SULLIVAN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Sang Bukaty’s story couldn’t be more different. Bukaty, 60, is a Newport Beach wife and mother who started the UCI Extension class to write a memoir for her children and grandchildren.

As she began to record stories about her childhood in a prominent family in Seoul during the Korean War, her youth in an elite school with a punishing regime, her training as a promising cellist and on into adulthood, she found writing was a tool for self-exploration.

“Writing is therapeutic,” Bukaty says. “Vague and faint memories become clearer, and the clear memories become vivid. it gives the writer a chance to re-examine her life and learn from it.”

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