When I think of the fortuitous events of late 2007 that brought me from Austin, Texas to Korea, I realize I could just as easily have gone to Japan. After all, I once had a colleague named John who left Austin and moved to a small Japanese...
Yeong Yoon and I work in the Halla Classic Building—he on the 11th floor and I on the 4th. We meet for lunch once every two weeks, and he stubbornly refuses to let me buy. He pays every time. Mr. Yoon was born in Yesan in 1939...
They say that money talks and a certain bovine byproduct walks, and I know it’s true. A case in point is 87-year-old Joseph Dahr Jamail, Jr. Summarizing the life of Joe Jamail is not easy, but I will try. He is of Lebanese descent, the...
Just to the northwest of Dallas sits the suburb of Irving. One of its high schools is named after Douglas MacArthur. This is far from unique since many other American cities have schools and streets named in honor of the old general. He...
Tuesday Weld, Annette Funicello and Angela Cartwright. Most Americans of a certain baby-boom age remember the names of these young actresses in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The blonde-haired Weld (born in 1943) was in several television...
Over the course of four weeks spanning December 2012 and January 2013, I read three books purchased on the cheap from Amazon.com. All of them pertained to the history of Detroit, the one-time “Paris of Southeastern Michigan.” Why...
Living in Korea, I am not as attuned to big-time college and pro sports as I was before. This is probably good because I had become increasingly disaffected if not alienated by the sometimes sleazy, sometimes inane stuff that went on...
Sex makes the world go around. It is a fact of which you need not try to convince me. And for that reason alone, the work done by Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his colleagues at Indiana University from the late 1930s until his death in 1956 merits...
I was an impressionable college student—that is my excuse for having scribbled “Free Timothy Leary” on the cover of my Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1974. People in their late teens or early 20s think they can judge and...
Way back in 1976, college diploma in hand, I was barely making a living by driving a delivery car in Austin. I saw and experienced a lot of the city I would not have otherwise, including an old honky-tonk called the Skyline Club on the north...
Me and Lance Armstrong, we were buds. OK, that’s not quite true. Me and Lance, we hung out together all the time. Maybe I exaggerate somewhat. The fact is, I had one fleeting encounter with him. Armstrong sponsored a 5K race in...
On the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 2012, I took a short taxi ride to Gangnam Severance Hospital. And yet the path to treatment of my right knee had been rather long. Nearly seven months had passed since I felt an ominous pain there. A...
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