Until rather recently, I had a poor understanding of who James J. Kilpatrick was and what he did during his lifetime (1920-2010). I first knew him as the articulate, conservative commentator on the news show 60 Minutes in the 1970s. He engaged...
In November 2007, just before leaving Austin, I sold my car—a Mazda with about 175,000 miles on the odometer. Since then, I have had no worries about maintenance or insurance, filling up with gasoline or other such mundane matters. I do...
So Bruce Jenner has finally announced that he is in the process of “transitioning” into a woman. He told Diane Sawyer of ABC News on April 24, 2015 that he now identifies as female. I have to say, the 65-year-old native of Mt...
I spent four days in Manila, the Philippines during the summer of 2007. And while there, I was able to see a few spots of historical interest—Malacanang Palace, Manila Bay, the 400-year-old cathedral, Intramuros and Fort Santiago among...
When I decided to move to Korea more than seven years ago, I harbored a wish and a dream: maybe I could visit the fabled city of Shanghai, located just across the Yellow Sea. But until recently, I was not prepared to go there. I needed a...
I am certain that Hyun-Ah “Heather” Cho rues her actions of December 5, 2014. She was on board an airplane about to fly from New York to Seoul. It had just begun taxiing away from the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport...
Having achieved a measure of stability in my life—a steady job, a car (a blue Volkswagen), the beginnings of a journalism career and a UT grad student named Lulu as my main squeeze—it seemed that taking a vacation would not be...
This piece has to begin with a significant mea culpa. Like most people, deep down inside I am a hypocrite, two-faced and desirous of having my cake and eating it, too. I like to have it both ways. So what you read here will be evidence...
Texas is number 1! So we often said when I lived there (essentially 1952-2007). But in some fields, it is better to be last rather than first—for example, child drownings. The sad truth is that more than 70 kids in Texas die by drowning...
She was the six-time (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2013 and 2014) South Korean national champion, three-time (2007, 2008 and 2010) Grand Prix final champion, two-time (2009 and 2013) world champion, Olympic gold medal winner (2010) and silver medal...
I met Bill Gibson as part of the Austin road racing scene in the mid-1980s. I like and respect him a lot. For one thing, he could run faster than me. Smart and highly informed about current events, Bill is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. As such...
We have drought in much of the western United States, girls being subjected to genital mutilation in Africa, rampant corruption in Russia, a hopelessly failed state on the north end of the Korean peninsula, wars in Afghanistan, Syria and South...
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