Climb on board, Shipmates! The wait is done, the times are ripe and we can use a little joy! We were engaged in folding things up just as nature was opening them wide! You can see the buds full and ready to pop at the invitation of the Cross that stands tall on the west […]

There could be a clarion call this morning about the Big Speech scheduled to be issued from the White House later today. It is an unusual one, since it resembles a state of the Union in a fashion unseen in 130 years sonce a non-consecutive President addressed both Houses of Congress with margins of majoity […]

No we aren’t there, though we wish we were. That is Seoul with the gate to the old city wall in 1980 and the big pivot from pirate days to asking Jane to marry and build a family. She was tired of what she was doing and said “Yes,” and then the real magic of […]

Gentle Readers, you already got the Saturday stuff out of you systems, or at least the weekend parts that carried the digits about international crisis de jour with that little fellow in the smudged sweat clothes and the Holy Father apparent recovery from influenza. Accordingly, we will limit this to the apparently recovery of Creative […]

You will hear the truculent words in some form just as we did here in Arlington. They literallly bounced off some of the marble spires here in curious directions. Mr. Trump has always been known as a linguistic stylist, but the small crowd here at our conference table listened in stunned silence to Mr. Zelensky’s […]

Splash gently put aside the large stub of the Monte Cristo cigar he has been nursing through this edition of seasonal change. The tumult is in the air above the warming river. He slid the elegant ceramic ash tray closer to the center of the conference table. He had shrugged Winter’s recent premature retreat a […]

(Vapor, Splash and Vic preparing to provide water to Richmond). There was good news flying around that made everybody laugh. There’s a new child coming into this world just starting where many of us are getting ready to leave. So there was that and there was a lot to talk about. Each one could have […]

“Yike! The State Department Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub, or “R/FIMI,” is still open!” There was pandemonium near the Black Rifle Coffee urn in the Galley. When a quick Saturday production blow-through in the Socotra House Conference Room starts like that it means more work instead of our professional preference. The first question […]