People in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and elsewhere often express bewilderment about how hypersensitive Americans are when it comes to racial matters: always fighting, arguing, bringing up or ignoring past injustices and seeking to take...
Kathleen Monte, my main squeeze from the summer of 1989 to early 1993, had an easy life. Her father had left her an inheritance that approached $1 million. On top of that, her job at IBM paid well. She lived in a house in northwest Austin that...
The Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop (better known in central Texas as FCI Bastrop) is a low-security prison 30 miles southeast of Austin. It houses about 800 male inmates, most of whom are there for drug offenses and white-collar...
John, Paul, George and Ringo may have been right in asserting that all you need is love. What we do not need, however, is another word spoken or written about Jacquelyn Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929−1994). She has been the subject of 33...
Who knows how long Jonalyn Bayotas had been trysting with her beau, and it really doesn’t matter. What is certain is that she conceived in the spring of 2008. This was a problem for Ms. Bayotas because she was a married woman. Her...
It has been suggested that I am too harsh in calling the Jim Crow college football coaches—Bear Bryant (primarily Alabama), Charley McClendon (LSU), Bobby Dodd (Georgia Tech), Frank Howard (Clemson), Shug Jordan (Auburn), Johnny Vaught...
While the present story pertains to my maternal grandfather, William Adair Cox (a.k.a. “Grandpop”), I will start by saying a few words about his mother (my great-grandmother, as you can probably surmise). Mamie Wynne Cox lived from...
Frank Broyles, the last of the Jim Crow college football coaches, has died. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease; he was 92. I can find a lot of reasons to admire and respect this man. He was a multi-sport athlete at...
On Tuesday, August 15, 2017, my former student Ji-Hyeong Choi was in Busan entertaining some visiting Japanese kids. She told me it was a wholly pleasant experience for all concerned. This, of course, is a good thing. Koreans and...
The 18 years I spent in east Dallas, 12 of which were as a student at Kiest, Hexter, Hill and Bryan Adams, have been fairly well covered. Ah, but downtown, Fair Park, Oak Cliff and other parts of the city deserve to be addressed. Here are some...
While I have never been to Romania or anywhere near it, I have two connections, however slight. Dr. Reuven Lazarowitz, one of the people featured in my 1994 book Coming to Texas / International Students at the University of Texas...
Whew!! I just completed a 900-page biography of Vincent Van Gogh, the immortal Dutch post-Impressionist painter. It took me 13 days. Entitled Van Gogh / The Life, this book was written by Steven Naifeh and the late Gregory White Smith, and was...
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