I underwent arthroscopic surgery on one of my knees to repair a torn meniscus at Yonsei Severance Hospital in 2012. I do not remember the name of the doctor, the month, or whether it was my right or left knee, but the other had been done in...
phobia [foh-bee-uh] / ˈfoʊ bi ə / noun 1. an intense, persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, situation or person that manifests in physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, rapid heartbeat or shortness of breath, and...
It may have been from a book I read or some online article, but a statement by one historian really made me pause and reflect. In paraphrase, he/she asked the rhetorical question “What group of people caused the most misery while contributing the...
I learned a lot during the years (1996 to 1998) I was researching and writing Longhorn Hoops / The History of Texas Basketball. That includes, for example, the 44-game winning streak led primarily by three-sport letterman Clyde Littlefield...
Whether at home or the office, I listen to music through YouTube. Typical of my current preferences are acoustic guitar work by Josh Snodgrass and Oner Yavuz, duduk (a double-reed woodwind instrument originating in Armenia) music, Erik Satie...
Scott Wilson and I had much in common: Both Texas-born European-American males, both way into sports and both proud possessors of a diploma from our state’s flagship institution. There were differences, however, as will soon be clear. A native of...
After a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure, Warren McVea breathed his last on October 18 in Los Angeles. He was 79. I, like many others, remember this mercurial running back from San Antonio’s Brackenridge High...
It’s interesting to realize how ambitious the Japanese were just over eight decades ago. Consider the countries they occupied or subjected to military force: Korea, China, the Philippines, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Singapore, Malaya, Formosa...
While traveling throughout Korea, I have witnessed some sad and distressing sights. Examples include the street behind Seoul’s Tapgol Park, where homeless and apparently hopeless old people gather every day; Uiryeong, where a policeman went...
Adolf Hitler, Lee Oswald, Charles Manson, Pol Pot and Idi Amin have all earned the civilized world’s enmity. We loathe der Führer et al. for good reason, but it must be kept in mind that early on they were their mamas’ darling boys. Only later...
I have written elsewhere of my deep admiration for Michael Jeffrey Jordan. It started when, as a freshman at North Carolina, his picture-perfect jump shot beat Georgetown to win the 1982 national championship. Every inch a star with the Chicago...
Eighty years ago yesterday, after the playing of Kimigayo (the Japanese national anthem) in a pre-recorded 4-minute and 36-second statement via the nation’s broadcasting company, Emperor Hirohito lamented that “the Empire’s efforts to liberate...
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