Editor’s Note: Watching an endless Hallmark Channel movies has been recommended as a possible therapy for SAD. It is worth a try. Refuge Farm is decorated. Marlow has some memories of tunes past coming up tomorrow. As was heard in the chow line near the publishing bunk-house late yesterday, “Best damn National Emergency, ever!” – […]

Editor’s Note: Medical appointments this morning. This note is from ten years ago and kind of fun. Not exactly like this year. Reading it makes me remember another America. – Vic 05 December 2010 (Keepers of the Old Navy traditions. USMC Drill Instructors. Photo USMC.) My Candidate Officer called from Newport late yesterday, right before […]

I was briefly stunned into waking consciousness by a news blast yesterday afternoon. I know, I had almost dozed off in peace, but sadly that is how we get our news these days. I was reviewing some of the more amazing claims about the recent election- you may have heard them- that involved alleged casualties […]

Editor’s Note: This is part two of an account of a small event that happened a while ago. At the time, it was part of something much larger than a politician’s visit to a simple aircraft carrier conducting routine operations in the Mediterranean Sea. There was something else much larger going on. The Soviet State […]

Editor’s Note: Yeah, I know, we got back in the saddle yesterday to try to sense what is coming in this tumultuous year. I have a sense for what is going to happen this week, as the Electoral Summit’s proximity will drive all sorts of entertaining adventures. All the talk about Presidents and who they […]

I said we could get back to normal today, the day after the actual day after. But let’s start slow and ease into it. The left-overs will last until this evening. I think there is a slice of Culpeper home-made apple pie that may linger to breakfast tomorrow. It is a splendid, if finite, replacement […]

It is officially an off-the-clock Friday. We used to have a different name for it- something about retailing. I forget. But today, under gentle gray skies with a whiff of Autumn still in them the dishwasher is empty, the left-overs beckon, and life is good. As with all celebrations, there are a few things left […]