“I was brought up in the greatest country in the world. Patriotism isn’t a matter of flag-waving but of work ethic and respect for authority.” That line came from an interview with Dick Young who covered sports—mostly baseball and boxing—in a...
Guilt motivated me to come back to these towns I had visited just a week earlier because both deserved a closer look. The taxi driver dropped me off in front of Ms. Lee’s Mexican chicken restaurant, but it was closed. So much for my lunch plans!...
While Melinda Ann French and I are both Dallas natives, we moved in very different circles. Second daughter of an aerospace engineer, she was valedictorian at the all-female Ursuline Academy. Me, I was a face in the crowd at a big public high...
Having recently completed Charles J. Hanley’s Ghost Flames / Life & Death in a Hidden War / Korea 1950−1953, I decided to embark on this day trip to a couple of towns in the eastern reaches of Gyeonggi Province. A bus ride, a subway ride and...
Nearly 200 years have passed since Romania—with some prodding by the Ottomans, the Russians, the Austrians, the British and the French—first discussed building a canal to link the Danube with the Black Sea. Its main portion of the river ran north...
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