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(Danny Fenster hugs mother Rose as Bill Richardson, right, looks on this morning. Danny was released from a Burmese jail yesterday after conviction by a military court last Friday, and immediately departed on a flight to the U.S. Press accounts indicate Bill escorted him on the flight, which accounts for why it was difficult to […]
Editor’s Note: It is Fall in Virginia’s Piedmont, and Arrias has released his poetic muse to capture the magic of the season. Expect a complete volume of his verse. – Vic The Artist Speaks I have never seen the leaves so bright, I’ve never seen such a glorious fall, Reds and greens and gold, More […]
(Journalist Danny Fenster, left, and Bill Richardson, right, celebrate liberation. Danny will not spend the next decade in a dank Burmese jail. He is headed home because of Bill’s efforts. Photo AP). Want a hero for a Monday morning? We have one for you. His name is Bill Richardson. He is one of our heroes. […]
China is not Colombia. That is, you might say, a blinding flash of the obvious. But the illegal drugs that flow out of Colombia and into the United States do so despite the efforts of the Colombian government. China is different; China is a country controlled entirely by the Communist Party (CCP). Certainly, there are […]
Times being what they are, we were thinking about Formosa. That leads to part of the confusion. That large island is now known as “Taiwan,” and reflects some of the who-and-where parts of China’s rise. We are in the process of having another Formosa crisis with some new names. We do that periodically. When many […]
We have been feeding a neighborhood cat who was our dear departed neighbor-and-friend’s main pet. Pittypat misses him as much as we do. A newly-installed late last year backyard gate lock prevented us from our nightly feeding and watering visits to this cat’s bowls on the back porch. So, we slowly enticed this truly independent […]
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Splash looked particularly good this morning. It is not unusual to see him arrayed in costume- at least on weekends. He adjusted some of the brass buttons on his tunic as he sat on one of the more elevated stone around the Fire Ring. The choice of stone reflected his mood, since it put him […]
Editor’s Note: Marlow hits head on a subject something the rest of the Writer’s Section at Socotra House has tried to dance around. We are all products of the agglomeration of our collective pasts. Like Marlow, most of us had professional lives that were ordered in tempo with the Defense Condition of the moment. Splash […]