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...
Sometime in late 2013, on the subway back to Gangnam I was staring at an advertisement and trying to figure out what its letters, syllables and words meant. I must have looked like a befuddled foreigner because a couple of young men offered to...
It must have been in late August of 1958 when my mother accompanied me to my first day of school, at Kiest Elementary in far east Dallas. Whether the other students were as nervous as me, I do not know but after about an hour in Mrs...
Do you remember your first time? I’m not talking about THAT! I mean the first time you ran in a marathon (26.2 miles or 42.195 kilometers). I remember mine despite the passage of almost 28 years. I had done dozens of 5Ks and 10Ks, and a...
Sentimental guy that I am, I wish they would have left Dongdaemun Stadium intact. You talk about a place redolent with history! It was built during the dark days of Japanese colonialism, and a large number of soccer games, baseball games and...
One hundred years ago, in 1916, Ty Cobb enjoyed a typically spectacular season for the Detroit Tigers—in 145 games, he had 542 at-bats, scored 113 runs (first in the American League), had 201 hits (including 31 doubles, 10 triples and 5...
Despite the passage of more than a decade, I have no difficulty remembering just how entranced we were with Vince Young. This 6’5“, 230-pound athletic specimen had taken control of the quarterback position at the University of...
My father was an east Dallas guy. He was born there and attended Mt. Auburn Elementary School, Long Junior High School and Woodrow Wilson High School. He played hundreds of rounds at Tenison Golf Course and bowled just as often at Jupiter...
I believe in the Christian gospel, I really do. To me, Jesus is the light of the world (Ego sum lux mundi, as it is written in Latin), the alpha and the omega. You don’t need to preach to me, sisters and brothers, because I already...
The girls’ drill teams that keep people in the stands at halftime of high school—and some college—football games were born in Texas, and that is where they have most flourished. It began in 1928 with the Sam Houston High...
I was a student at Bryan Adams High School in Dallas from September 1968 until graduation in May 1971. Those were innocent days for me and most of my classmates. It was a big school, with about 3,300 students. A young man who attended BA at...
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