On a recent bone-chilling Saturday morning, I took the subway to Samgakji Station and walked five minutes to the War Memorial of Korea. I had been to this place before, in 2009. There was a certain exhibit I wanted to see, about a Korean freedom...
’Tis the season. Not the season for giving and receiving presents, for depictions of Santa Claus and his reindeer, for cheesy commercials or for obligatory gatherings of people who sometimes can barely stand each other. But the season to...
She was one of the gentlest, sweetest and kindest women I have ever known—easy on the eyes, too. So I was saddened to learn of the troubles she endured in her later years, and her death on October 28. My connections to Peggy Crippen were few. We...
For brief stretches in 1973, 1974 and 1978, I lived with my family in the bedroom community of Livonia, Michigan. Of those college and post-college days, I retain memories both painful and amusing. What follows is one of the latter. I had a blue...
I am a voracious reader. Without any doubt, reading is one of my life’s greatest pleasures. But not everything I read can be considered pleasing since some of the books in my library are devoid of sweetness and light. On the contrary, they are...
In June 1977, Teheran mayor Gholam Reza Nikpay visited Seoul to meet with his Korean counterpart, Ku Ja-choon. South Korea and Iran first established diplomatic relations in 1962 (in fact, cultural exchange began 1,600 years ago due to the Silk...
After a month at the University of Texas, I felt rather shaky. Lost on that bustling and crowded campus, I was having doubts about my ability to function academically and socially; such freshman insecurities were far from unique, but I did not...
I have written elsewhere about smug, I’m-somebody-and-you’re-nobody jocks like Archie Manning, Eric Metcalf, Earl Campbell, Spencer Haywood and Alberto Salazar. I had the occasion to meet each of these men, and soon came to rue the day I did. But...
There is a new store in my neighborhood, wedged between Banapresso Coffee Shop and a restaurant called Onghaeya. A high-end women’s clothing boutique formerly occupied that spot, followed by a sushi joint. They have been succeeded by Max Vape...
This is the six-year anniversary of the greatest day of my life. On July 18, 2017, I was perusing the Internet when I came upon an article about blueberries. It averred that this sweet and juicy little fruit, also known as Vaccinium cyanococcus...
They met in September 1961 as freshman recruits on the University of Arkansas football team. Both were linemen—Jerry Jones of Little Rock on the offense and Jimmy Johnson of Port Arthur, Texas on the defense. Assigned by coach Frank Broyles as...
There are some things we know for certain about Anna Wallis Suh. She was born in 1900 in Lawrence County, Arkansas, the youngest of six children in a farming family. Orphaned in her early teens, she moved to Oklahoma to live with one of her...
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