Maybe I should have called this the Galley Surprise, since despite all the planning, sometimes thigs occur that disrupts the careful planning. Like: “The Russians and Ukrainians are lobbing drones at each other. Some of them are going off-course and hitting targets in places like Romania. That nation has been a full member of NATO […]

SECWAR Hegseth was down in Norfolk yesterday to meet the 5,000 members of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Strike Group that returned yesterday, completing a record-breaking 326-day deployment. The group conducted successful combat operations in two continents and four crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. That makes it sort of personal, since one of our […]

Morning, Gang! What a dynamite Saturday! Skies are brilliant blue and the sun a blazing bright orb that has slowly inched past the lower right corner of the giant plate glass windows of the 4th Floor Conference Room at the Trillium office/residential/retail complex. We had the company national conference yesterday that started things rolling in […]

This is almost too much for those Boomers at the table to comprehend. With an average age spanning 70 to 85, they bring long memories to the 4th Floor Conference Room at the Socotra House Creative Section. Somewhere deep in their collective recollections was being a teenager when the evil dictator Batista—whose two periods of […]

I don’t recall ex-spouse Jane’s Birthday always being Mother’s Day, but this is a lovely one and the memory of the laughter and tears we shared are powerful on this sunny morning. We did a happy slide this morning to get things rolling, but there are other big deals out there that deserve a mention. […]

The puppet media owned by the Iranian Republican Guard has reported that their government has submitted a response to the peace proposal offered by the Americans. The Islamic Republic News Agency cited “a source familiar with the matter” that negotiations between the Trump administration and Tehran are solely focused on halting hostilities in the region. […]

Deirdre had an answer for a weekend swirling in conflict, for kinetic and legal. Her answer was prompted by news about another disaster overseas, and a reason to concentrate on nutrition. Southern-Fried Prawns are a delicious and crispy treat to remedy the needs of watch-standers, drop-bys and sleep-overs at the Socotra House the Creative Section. […]

We will keep this short, and did not want to lead with it with this morning. But the reports are coming in now that evening is coming to Red Square. This was this year’s celebration of Victory Day for the Soviet Union over the forces of actual Fascism in 1945. What is interesting is the […]

There wasn’t much in the news this morning, no surprise, since the Iranians were rumored to have had 48 hours to respond to a US proposal for peace issued Wednesday. That would have expired around lunch time today, and although we are starting to get a little hungry, no word from the part of the […]