According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, there are now more than 20 million cars or trucks in Korea. That’s one four-wheeled, motorized vehicle for every 2.56 people. Quite a jump from the 7,000 cars in the...
I have only two vague memories of life before my family moved into a red-brick home in far east Dallas in the summer of 1957. In the first, I was quite young—maybe one year old? I was in a crib, and there were a number of adults in the...
The North Koreans are in the news again. I refer not to them testing a hydrogen bomb or sending another missile over the East Sea or hacking computers in South Korea and the USA or putting the clamps on desperate would-be refugees or sucking...
It was an interesting setting and an interesting conversation. Prior to the Orange-White Game at Memorial Stadium sometime in the mid-1980s, the coaches and other staffers of the University of Texas athletic department were cooking up an...
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...
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...
When I was living in Texas, I had many occasions to visit Houston. A few miles west of there, on Interstate 10, is the little town of Sealy. It has at least one claim to fame. That’s where Eric Dickerson—the most splendid running...
Almost as soon as former University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal breathed his last on November 7, 2012, there began the encomiums, the flowery tributes, the hosannas in the highest. It seemed that sports writers, fans and ex-players...
My friend Yong Yoon mentioned that there was a man I should meet, and I was willing. We were introduced over lunch at the Bierhof, kitty-corner to the Halla Classic Building where Mr. Yoon and I work. I will begin by saying that the...
You might think that since I graduated from the University of Texas, lived in proximity to its campus for more than three decades and wrote four books about it, I would be among the most gung-ho of Longhorns. Before stating why that is not...
During my sophomore year at the University of Texas, one of the assigned readings in a huge American history class was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Two decades later, I asked my then-girlfriend to accompany me to an auditorium on the same...
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