One Grandson’s Tribute by Keith Telfeyan Grandma Elida died yesterday, Friday, March 29, 2019. Dad texted after trying to call me. I was in a loud Berlin bar, midnight, drinking with friends. I felt jubilant, a bit sedate as I read the text. It shook me more than I anticipated. I can’t say I was […]

               As 2018 fades all too quickly into the past, 2019 got off to a great start in Sacramento’s performing arts’ scene with a memorable concert by the Sacramento Philharmonic and a near-perfect production of an intriguing play.                 The concert was the first of two all-Beethoven programs (billed as a “Beethoven Festival”) at the […]

               Have you been tracking the latest assaults on the War on Christmas?  You have to know all about it if you spend any time on Fox News.  Just this month, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham have devoted considerable air-time to stories like the parody of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” that, although clearly intended as […]

               George H. W. Bush (Bush 41) was the presidential candidate whose election I worked against.  I was a full-time paid staffperson on the campaign team of Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, and I had far from good feelings about the then Vice President.  Partisan that I was, I saw Bush […]