Many people look back on their college days with unalloyed happiness. I had a bit of that during my four years at the University of Texas, but I can also remember worry, pressure and feelings of insecurity. It was a big campus packed with 40,000...
I have met or interviewed (or both) five head football coaches at my alma mater, the University of Texas: Darrell Royal, Fred Akers, David McWilliams, John Mackovic and Mack Brown. I draw your attention to the fourth of those gentlemen, Mackovic...
These inter-Korean trips don’t always go as expected. My destinations on the first weekend of spring 2019 were Kohwun Garden and Wonsando (130 kilometers south of Seoul, with the Yellow Sea to the west and Cheonsuman Bay to the east). As things...
I am on record as stating that Dr. Martin Luther King is not the only hero of the civil rights movement. King did not do it by himself—indeed, the process began long before he was born—but he deserves a lot of credit. I admire and respect him for...
LeBron James has taken his talents to southern California, Bryce Harper just signed a $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, the New England Patriots won yet another Super Bowl, and preparations for the Tokyo Summer Olympics (2020)...
You will find me at Tapgol Park on the first day of March, every year—no exceptions. Of course, 2019 was especially important as it marked a century since the promulgation of the Korean Declaration of Independence. The air was bad in Seoul on...
Magnolia Park is just a few miles north of downtown Beaumont, Texas. That is where, in the early 1960s, high school football players gathered to practice and play informal games. Recreation for black kids then was minimal, so they created their...
My life changed for the better when the Brandeberry family moved from Omaha to Dallas in the summer of 1969. The oldest of its three children was a girl named Carol. She enrolled at Bryan Adams High School, and her locker had by the luck of the...
I recently attended and enjoyed an exhibition about the life and music of John Lennon and the Beatles at the Seoul Arts Center. However—and I am afraid I will sound like an insufferable snob here—I learned little since I lived through the Beatles...
According to Stanley Woodward of the New York Herald Tribune, some major fireworks went off just three weeks after Jackie Robinson began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Certainly there had been opposition to Robinson...
On this 223-kilometer bus ride to Korea’s east coast, I had two seat mates. The first was a young woman who had recently been through plastic surgery; I could see her bruised face underneath a mask. The second was a burly man who reeked of...
Not until 2016 did I get on Facebook. I have, for the most part, enjoyed and benefited from it. Facebook has enabled me to find people with whom I had long lost contact. But, as with every form of social media, things are not always what they...
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