The fact that I am a Dallas native has surely made me more attentive to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy than I might have been otherwise. I was 10 years old on November 22, 1963, a fifth-grade student at Hexter Elementary...
My best days as a marathoner were in the past, I realized that. My PR (personal record) had taken place more than five years earlier, in the 1992 San Antonio Marathon where I had a time of 2 hours, 42 minutes, 48 seconds, and came in 15th...
If the truth is told, most families have elements of sadness and/or sorrow. Mine is no exception. One hush-hush story pertained to my father. He was driving to work on a dark and foggy morning in 1955 when his car hit a newspaper boy. He died...
A decade ago, while working at a translation agency in Texas, I listened to the radio via an earpiece to help the hours go by. When a co-worker learned that the radio was tuned to a station devoted to classical music (rather than...
Oh, the foolish things we do when we are young. A case in point: The summer of 1974, which I spent in the company of a bunch of gay men. Let me back up and explain what led to such a circumstance. I knew Don Lowe when we were freshmen at...
• Cultural Environment of International Business, by Vern Terpstra & Kenneth David (1991) • Brick by Golden Brick / University of Texas Campus Buildings, 1883–1993, by Margaret Berry (1993) • UT History 101 /...
I was immersed in the Austin running scene from the summer of 1981 until my departure for Korea in November 2007. In fact, I remember rather wistfully competing in a 5K race in my final week there. Of the 600-plus races I have run in my life...
I will say one thing about my father (d. 2005). He sure kept a nice yard. Wherever he lived, in Texas or in Michigan, he devoted an inordinate amount of time and energy to fertilizing, watering, mowing and edging his front lawn. I never knew...
I lived in Denton, 35 miles north of my hometown of Dallas, for just over two years. During that time, I worked at a series of jobs I would not especially want to list on my résumé and was briefly a graduate student at North...
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a freshman at the University of Texas, “the Drag” seemed to be a magical place. A six-block stretch of Guadalupe Street on the western edge of the UT campus, it has long been where one...
Hyde Park is a neighborhood in Austin, a couple of miles north of the University of Texas campus. With turn-of-the-century architecture, home-grown businesses and tree-shaded streets, it is a cool place to live. On the first day of 1986, I...
I was not very fond of Ann Richards, mostly because she seemed so beholden to the PC crowd. I was especially irked by her comment that “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
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