On the last night of the regular season last week, with two playoff spots yet to be decided, baseball fans across the country got to experience what has already been dubbed the sport’s greatest night.  And, as one with memories from my youth of trying to hear the scratchy broadcast of a late night […]

            I turned 65 last week.  For many years in my youth, I never thought that day would come.  Not that I had some morbid thought that I would die young—nothing like that.  I just didn’t think I would be 65 one day.  That was the age my maternal grandmother was when she died.  I […]

            There was a veritable buzz in the air in the minutes leading up to the beginning of the season-opening concert at the Mondavi Center (on the campus of U.C. Davis) last week.  The occasion was the reunion tour of Return to Forever, in its fourth incarnation and therefore labeled RTF IV.             Jackson Hall […]

            Should any political party attempt to abolish social security … and eliminate labor laws, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.  There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.  Their number is negligible and they are stupid. -Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954)             […]