I have written elsewhere about smug, I’m-somebody-and-you’re-nobody jocks like Archie Manning, Eric Metcalf, Earl Campbell, Spencer Haywood and Alberto Salazar. I had the occasion to meet each of these men, and soon came to rue the day I did. But...
There is a new store in my neighborhood, wedged between Banapresso Coffee Shop and a restaurant called Onghaeya. A high-end women’s clothing boutique formerly occupied that spot, followed by a sushi joint. They have been succeeded by Max Vape...
This is the six-year anniversary of the greatest day of my life. On July 18, 2017, I was perusing the Internet when I came upon an article about blueberries. It averred that this sweet and juicy little fruit, also known as Vaccinium cyanococcus...
They met in September 1961 as freshman recruits on the University of Arkansas football team. Both were linemen—Jerry Jones of Little Rock on the offense and Jimmy Johnson of Port Arthur, Texas on the defense. Assigned by coach Frank Broyles as...
There are some things we know for certain about Anna Wallis Suh. She was born in 1900 in Lawrence County, Arkansas, the youngest of six children in a farming family. Orphaned in her early teens, she moved to Oklahoma to live with one of her...
I have written elsewhere about my experience as a reader of Tom Swift books in 3rd and 4th grades at Edwin J. Kiest Elementary School in Dallas. Since my family moved three miles northwest in the summer of 1963, I was no longer a Kiest Indian but...
I take Memorial Day seriously. Every June 6, you can find me at Seoul National Cemetery showing respect to those who fought and died for Korean independence (and other prominent persons). This year was different since I would be traveling 139...
Due to congestive heart failure brought on by pneumonia, James Nathaniel Brown went the way of all flesh on May 18. His 87-year life is a mixture of appealing and appalling. I will address the former before moving on to the latter. A native of...
The mean streets of south Dallas, where Duane Thomas grew up, are not far from the Cotton Bowl, and he surely dreamed about playing football there. He had starred at Lincoln High School, but this was at the tail end of the segregation days and...
Feliks Dzierzynski (1877ￚ1926), a.k.a. “Iron Felix,” was one of the architects of the Red Terror. Vyacheslav Molotov (1890ￚ1986) coldly oversaw agricultural collectivization that resulted in 11 million people being worked to death. Vyacheslav...
To my dear friends in the Philippines—indeed, to each of the 109 million people living in that sprawling archipelago—I would like to say that we Americans have not always been the best allies. Now, it’s true that we helped you kick the Spanish...
To a large extent, we still adhere to the proverb “Of the dead, say nothing but good” which can be traced back to a Spartan named Chilon in the sixth century BC; the Latin version is De mortuis nil nisi bonum. As soon as a very fallible person...
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