As I grew up in Dallas, I had an acute awareness that my family was neither rich nor poor. The mansion of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt (then one of the wealthiest men in the world) on the shore of White Rock Lake was not too many miles away. And from...
Six years after graduating from the University of Texas, I re-enrolled. This time, however, I did not seek a degree—although getting a master’s would undoubtedly have helped me later on. I merely wanted to take a series of courses...
My basketball skills, such as they were, may have peaked in 1978. Then in my mid-20s, I was a resident of Durham, North Carolina and spent numerous sweaty hours playing at an outdoor court in the black part of town. Sometimes, however, I found...
I was pleased and honored when Kyu-Pal Choi, So Jang Nim at Hansung International Patent & Law Office, invited me to come with him to an event taking place at his alma mater on October 9. I already knew most of his story. Mr. Choi had...
The passage of more than three decades has resulted in some of the details fading away, but I am able to remember my first road race fairly well. I would have paid closer attention had I known I would run in so many more of these in the...
My attachment to and enthusiasm for the Dallas Cowboys undoubtedly peaked in the mid- and late 1960s. That was when the team played in the antiquated Cotton Bowl and pro football had yet to become the multi-billion-dollar enterprise it is...
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...
I had done relatively well in the Sunsa 10K race in Amsa-dong. I just needed to traverse an intersection, and I would soon be at the finish line. It was the duty of some retired Marine Corpsmen to tell the drivers to stop...
Shortly after the turn of the millennium—let’s say 2002—I got something in the mail. It was not a personal letter but a commercial come-on. I ordinarily threw such pieces of mail in the circular file (the trash), but...
For more than eight years, I was a self-employed writer. I somehow strung together several book projects which allowed me to pay the rent at my duplex in Travis Heights—but barely. In early 1998, I was visiting my CPA...
I was a freshman at the University of Texas, and the one-week spring break was coming up. Some students went home to be with their families in Dallas or Houston, rich ones took skiing trips in Colorado or places more exotic, and others...
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...
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