Almost 7,000 miles separate me from the land of my birth, so obviously I am not on the scene. My feel for what’s happening in the USA in the summer of 2016 is a bit shaky. That applies to numerous issues—Donald Trump winning the...
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, there are now more than 20 million cars or trucks in Korea. That’s one four-wheeled, motorized vehicle for every 2.56 people. Quite a jump from the 7,000 cars in the...
I have only two vague memories of life before my family moved into a red-brick home in far east Dallas in the summer of 1957. In the first, I was quite young—maybe one year old? I was in a crib, and there were a number of adults in the...
The North Koreans are in the news again. I refer not to them testing a hydrogen bomb or sending another missile over the East Sea or hacking computers in South Korea and the USA or putting the clamps on desperate would-be refugees or sucking...
Shortly after marauding British soldiers burned much of Washington, D.C. and the Library of Congress in 1814, former president Thomas Jefferson offered to sell most of his library (6,487 volumes—the largest private collection of books in...
It was an interesting setting and an interesting conversation. Prior to the Orange-White Game at Memorial Stadium sometime in the mid-1980s, the coaches and other staffers of the University of Texas athletic department were cooking up an...
Just after noon on a beautiful day in the spring of '16, I was in the park adjacent to the Halla Classic Building in Gangnam. I sat on a bench and awaited the arrival of my friend Kathy Choi. She was operating on what she called...
Back in the 1980s, I had a GF named Louise Montgomery. She was working on a doctorate in journalism at the University of Texas. Louise swooned for Thomas Jefferson, calling him brilliant, a man of protean intellect and vision. She was not...
If being overly sentimental is a character flaw, it’s a minor one. In any event, I plead guilty. I tend to form emotional attachments to people, events and places. Since I cling—almost tenaciously—to memories, I can tell you...
Curt Schilling is pretty well known to baseball fans. In a 20-year career, he pitched for the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks and Red Sox. Schilling compiled a 216-146 record, struck out 3,116 batters, was on three World Series winners...
Prior to her death in 2009, I wrote several letters to Susan Atkins. She had long been incarcerated at Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. She did not respond, but her husband did. I told them that I was convinced that she...
In 2000, Roger Ebert wrote a book entitled I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, about films he had reviewed and found lacking. They got suitably bad ratings—from zero to 1.5 stars—and an emphatic thumbs-down. Ebert had quite a...
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