While I am a proud University of Texas alumnus, I spent my final semester (Fall 1975) at Stephen F. Austin State University. The strange reason for my move from Austin to Nacogdoches is best left unsaid. UT was bigger, richer and more...
In one of my previous jobs, I worked alongside a guy named Al. A hopeless know-it-all, he tended to opine in an ex cathedra manner; his was to speak, and yours was to listen. He brooked no disagreement on any subject. As a result, we tangled a...
The back-story is as follows. I had played guard on the basketball team, and quarterback and defensive back on the football team at Hexter Elementary School in Dallas. My neighborhood was no hotbed of athletic competition...
Who is Avril Levigne? Heck if I knew until I read about the Canadian singer/songwriter in one of the LIKE textbooks. Kim Hee-Man, director of the Yongsan school, had written it himself and so it was part of the curriculum. He thought...
2007: Daegu (November 14), Seoul (December 25) 2008: Gyeongju (February 23), Andong and Hahoe (June 28), Changwon (July 18), Busan (August 16‒17), Goryeong and Haein-Sa (October 4), Mungyeong (November 7) 2009: Ulsan...
During my final two years at Hexter Elementary School, I was a member of the “accelerated class.” This is where teachers—using criteria of which I was not aware—determined who the smart kids were and put them...
This is a tale about history, culture and petty vandalism in Austin, Texas. Come with me back to 1976, the year of the American bicentennial. A recent college graduate, I was driving a delivery car—a red Ford mini-truck, to be...
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...
I was a student at Hill Junior High School in 1967 when the American Basketball Association was formed. This would be of no consequence had the Dallas Chaparrals not been a member of the league. I was an enthusiastic supporter from the start...
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