Editor’s Note: Don’t trust me or anyone that looks like me. I would trust Marlow, but why start there? – Vic Author’s note: Today’s piece is a brief respite from my ongoing Road series. As God is my witness, none of what follows is fictionalized. They Thought It Would Be Weirder McM and the Doc […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow has been on a tear of late. I was an early fan of his “Four Corners” saga of a counter-clockwise motorcycle trip around the perimeter of the Lower 48 states. Today, he touches here on some home country, and a reminder of an impending crisis in which my brother and I may […]

Editor’s Note: Yes, it is Saint Patrick’s Day. And yes, I am half in the bag already and wearing the emerald sweater of solidarity with our hardy folk who crossed the gray ocean to bring us to this interesting and colorful continent. Better than getting chased around by Vikings, I would think, though I am […]

Editor’s Note: More from Marlow’s magical mystical American road- seen from two wheels. Snow in the forecast here at the farm. Time to get it together if I am going to be back in The Swamp today. Wish me luck. But as Marlow notes, there could be a bar and dragons on the way. – […]

Editor’s Note: It is cool dow at the farm, and it is crisp and evokes the feelings Marlow described brow. I could not free more with his account of the dawn coming up, if not like Mr. Kipling’s “thunder across the Bay in Mandalay,” but it is a perfectly serviceable morning. We have “Sprung Ahead,” […]

Editor’s Note: down to the farm this morning to check on Edgar and Edwina, the famous Turkey Buzzards and maybe a winery or distillery visit. We will see…escaped the savagery of another Nor’Easter here in Your Nation’s Caital, but another is coming on Monday, part of a winter that really seems to like us. A […]