I wrote the following column ten years ago at the start of the new century.  I offer it again here as a check on my own optimism (at the time) and to keep us all focused on what our generation is accomplishing (and not accomplishing) in pursuit of our destiny.             Well what do […]

            The year just concluded was a bad one for the economy but a very good year for artistic performances in and around Sacramento.  We’ll let others decide if these two facts are causally connected.  Our job, as the calendar changes yet again, is to rank the top performances we experienced in 2009.              Ten […]

             First of all, what do we call it?  Was it the zeros, as in “zero one, zero two, …”?  Something seems to be missing in that handle.  Or maybe the thousands, “thousand one, thousand two”?  Night exactly the right ring, with all due respect to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”              The oh’s […]

            It has been twelve years since I penned the following ode to the joys of the holiday season.  At the time, the first of the horrific school shootings (by a 14-year old) had just settled into our collective consciousness, we were only beginning to recover from the sudden death of Princess Diana, and we […]