My final semester as a college student took place at Stephen F. Austin State University. I had gone to Nacogdoches in the hot summer of 1975 to escape the clutches of an overzealous female. I enrolled at the university that fall and took courses...
Since late November of last year, room 23 of the Yeoksam Livingtel has been my home. This red-brick edifice, located at 47 Bongeunsa-ro 30-gil, Gangnam-gu, is about a mile northeast of the Yesung Life Officetel, where I resided for more than 14...
Sixteen-plus years have passed since I moved to Korea, during which time I have traveled, read, studied, asked questions and cogitated about the country’s history and culture. Having done this, I submit that Kim Il-Sung came perilously...
As a freshman at the University of Texas (Fall 1971 and Spring 1972), my head was spinning. I had serious doubts about whether I could compete, academically and socially, and had no direction to speak of. In such a confused and insecure state, I...
Genealogy is something to which I have devoted little time or energy. But I know that before trekking southwest to Texas, the patrilineal side of my family had been in Kentucky and Tennessee. I also heard from one of the old folks that our...
The Camden Panthers have won the 2024 New Jersey Group 2 state basketball championship, beating Newark Arts High School by a score of 69-50. When those young men raised the trophy at Jersey Mike’s Arena on the Rutgers University campus, it would...
Three months after I graduated from the University of Texas (May 1976), a young man from the rough-and-tumble oil-patch town of Freer matriculated there. He would go on to much greater heights than I have. Steve McMichael—dubbed “Bam-Bam” by...
People who know boxing far better than I have mixed opinions about Tyson Fury. He has impassioned supporters and vociferous critics. I have seen a few of his fights (highlights, that is, on YouTube) and must say I like him. He has no tats, he...
Early in my tenure at Hansung Intellectual Property, I went to lunch once a week with the senior partners—boss-man Kyu-Pal Choi and three or four others. I usually followed along to whatever sikdang he had in mind. But once I surprised him with a...
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