Editor’s Note: This delightful romp through an older-era Key West hit me hard, as our little band of barroom refugees up in Virginia has first lost Willow and then Front Page here in Arlington. I remember a night in Key West where we stumbled into the Chart House to observe the table where famed treasure-hunter […]

Editor’s Note: we appear to be in a kinetic war with the Russian, which provoked a thermonuclear threat from Mr. Putin this morning. Not much other news, except the prospect of annihilation this morning. So it goes, quoting Mr. Kurt Vonnegut in his marvelous book “Slaughterhouse Five.” Marlow provides thought and observations this morning. There […]

Editor’s Note: this is a continuation of Marlow’s tale about a buddy who lived some extraordinary times in extraordinary places- and paid a price. It is interesting to see what currency was used. Some, like you guys, gave something. There is always something around the next bend in the river. Others gave it all. Let’s […]

Editor’s Note: Sorry for being out of touch. Kitchen reconstruction has been a continuing and irritating distraction- not to mention the Stupid Olympics that dragged me back to 1980 and the decades since to think about the years spent thinking about time in the Republic. Here, and in the now, Leo and some extraordinary former […]

Editor’s Note: wanted to be down at Refuge Farm for what could be the last major snow storm of the 2018 cycle. It wasn’t that big a deal. but having a fire and watching the sleet and wintry mix come down deep in the Virginia countryside is pretty cool. As to Marlow’s fine story this […]