In 1949, Ogden Nash penned his famous poem “Line-up for Yesterday” for Sport magazine. In it, he recalled baseball greats of the past in alphabetical order. I find the poem’s enduring cultural value rather puzzling. I am...
Just 22 years before my matriculation at the University of Texas, a concert was given on campus that did not draw a lot of attention. It was summertime, June 15, 1949, to be specific, and most of the students were away. Appearing that night...
I am writing this just a couple of hours after Eli Manning led the New York Giants to their second Super Bowl victory (21-17 over the New England Patriots) in four years. He was named the game’s MVP. I like Manning and his low-key...
A few months ago, while wandering around the used-book section at Amazon.com, I took note of a very cheap, out-of-print tome about London. Penned more than 60 years earlier, it was surely not up to date. The capital of England has changed a...
“Do not speak badly of the dead.” So we are told by the ancient Greek scribe Diogenes Laertius. These are wise words, and in general I try to adhere to them. But I wonder whether Diogenes ever came across a man so worthy of...
I had attended a baseball game (Samsung Lions vs. LG Twins) with my friend Nam-Il during the summer of 2011, and he asked me to join him at a movie six months later. Which one? He said that was up to me. A different friend recommended Mission...
While having coffee with colleagues after lunch recently, one of them expressed puzzlement as to why I would be reading the biography of a man, Samuel Johnson, who lived more than 250 years ago. In point of fact, I have read books going...
I am not sure how I came into possession of two tickets to the 1971 Cotton Bowl football game except that I did not buy them. My best guess is that they were a gift from the LaJoie family a few doors down from our house. Two years earlier, they...
Taking a job offer from a law firm in Seoul nearly three years ago was an important event in my life, but I knew even then that leaving Daegu would not be easy. In fact, I have never completely left that city in southern Gyeongsangbuk...
Being the only foreigner at Hansung International Patent & Law Office is a mixture of good, bad and in-between. Our leader, Kyu-Pal Choi, hired me nearly three years ago specifically because of my non-Korean background; a native English...
I sometimes tell my Korean friends that one of the biggest differences between living here and in the USA is that it’s just so much safer. In Seoul, home to far more people than New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, you can go virtually...
The 1 1/2 decades I spent living in a Travis Heights bungalow were quite enjoyable. I felt fortunate to call that Austin neighborhood home. But the years and the events tended to blur together, which was all the more reason to move to...
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