If the truth is told, most families have elements of sadness and/or sorrow. Mine is no exception. One hush-hush story pertained to my father. He was driving to work on a dark and foggy morning in 1955 when his car hit a newspaper boy. He died...
A decade ago, while working at a translation agency in Texas, I listened to the radio via an earpiece to help the hours go by. When a co-worker learned that the radio was tuned to a station devoted to classical music (rather than...
Oh, the foolish things we do when we are young. A case in point: The summer of 1974, which I spent in the company of a bunch of gay men. Let me back up and explain what led to such a circumstance. I knew Don Lowe when we were freshmen at...
• Cultural Environment of International Business, by Vern Terpstra & Kenneth David (1991) • Brick by Golden Brick / University of Texas Campus Buildings, 1883–1993, by Margaret Berry (1993) • UT History 101 /...
I was immersed in the Austin running scene from the summer of 1981 until my departure for Korea in November 2007. In fact, I remember rather wistfully competing in a 5K race in my final week there. Of the 600-plus races I have run in my life...
I will say one thing about my father (d. 2005). He sure kept a nice yard. Wherever he lived, in Texas or in Michigan, he devoted an inordinate amount of time and energy to fertilizing, watering, mowing and edging his front lawn. I never knew...
I lived in Denton, 35 miles north of my hometown of Dallas, for just over two years. During that time, I worked at a series of jobs I would not especially want to list on my résumé and was briefly a graduate student at North...
Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a freshman at the University of Texas, “the Drag” seemed to be a magical place. A six-block stretch of Guadalupe Street on the western edge of the UT campus, it has long been where one...
Hyde Park is a neighborhood in Austin, a couple of miles north of the University of Texas campus. With turn-of-the-century architecture, home-grown businesses and tree-shaded streets, it is a cool place to live. On the first day of 1986, I...
I was not very fond of Ann Richards, mostly because she seemed so beholden to the PC crowd. I was especially irked by her comment that “Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
DARRELL K. ROYAL–TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM. Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, formerly Texas Memorial Stadium, has been the home of University of Texas football and track teams since 1924. In that year Henry Jacob Lutcher...
In September 2001, I had taken a long-awaited trip to Niagara Falls. It was an exciting, unforgettable vacation. In the same way, I simply had to visit the Grand Canyon, regarded by some people as numero uno among the seven wonders of the...
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