Readers of these pages are surely aware by now of my lack of patriotism. It’s not that I do not like the amber waves of grain, forspacioius skies or dawnzerly…
Several of my correspondents have communicated to me that, like me, they have desisted in their use of media since November 9. One has even taken to tossing her…
I have travelled to over seventy countries, explored hundreds of cities and spent years living abroad in England, France and Hong Kong, enough to confer some understanding of what foreigners…
It’s the second “morning after” of trying to say the words “President Trump” and the speculation on “WTF happened!” and how “great’” or “gawdawful” our faux democracy is going to…
The final act in the less than illustrious presidency of Barack Obama might well be that he is responsible for, for the second time, trashing the presidential ambitions of Hillary…
Growing up in the years immediately following the end of WWII I came to not only wonder how an evil country like Nazi Germany that followed a minster like Adolf…
Preamble: Less than two weeks before a Clinton or a Trump presidency I went back to take a look at how I was feeling about American politics and the…
In a political atmosphere in which a candidate openly supported by white supremacist organizations exhorts his followers to de facto intimidate minority voters at the polls, and who employs “dog…
I voted today. I sat at my desk, felt-tip pen in hand and filled in the bubbles on the ballot, beginning with my vote for Hillary Clinton. The ballot was…
Japanese troops parade in Queen’s Road, Victoria, Hong Kong , December 1941 CONCERTO, a novel by Elizabeth Darrell (1993); THE PIANO TEACHER, A NOVEL, by Janice Y.K. Lee, (2009)…