Faithful Oakland A's fans – I counted myself one of them — kept hoping until the bottom of the ninth inning that Andujar, Langeliers or someone else on the squad might hit a towering home…
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Sometimes, when I’m alone and I'm able to escape the daily drone of people and machines that drive us all a little closer to the edge of insanity, I close my eyes and I drift…
Regardless of the time spent, a day at the DMV can seem that way. More like day on the DMZ. For me, I readied myself for almost a month between getting my driver's license renewal…
Yeah, yeah, I know the Tories are out, Labour won big time and Keir Starmer is the new PM and at home at 10 Downing Street. Starmer called for “Change.” That’s what voters clearly wanted…
Reds — the title of Warren Beatty’s Bohemian/Bolshevik love story that features John Reed and Louise Bryant — is also the title of Maurice Isserman’s new book subtitled, “The Tragedy of American Communism.” Issermam is…
There was a time in the good ol’ USA when manufacturing was booming, factories were humming and workers were making things on assembly lines. “Things” weren’t all that workers were making, because money was also…
Once upon a time, there was America, and it was great, or at least that's what my teachers taught. Then I grew up, and one by one over the decades of my life, the grand…
I grew up with restaurants and in restaurants and luxuriated in the romance of restaurants in New York, London, Mexico City and elsewhere. My lawyer father had clients who owned restaurants and so we ate…
Willie Mays. Was there ever a better name for a ball player? Willie Mays. Just the mention of his name brings a smile to all, even Dodger fans. Willie Mays. I grew-up in SoCal in…