Editor’s Note: I am a little frustrated. I was supposed to be in Honolulu this morning. But that does not change the significance of the date, 75years ago. We talked about some of this yesterday, as the epic Battle of Midway was nearing. The 3rd of June was a special day, and we ought to […]

All the ceremonies surrounding the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway are kicking off today. The vast distances involved meant that the epic struggle would play out over a week. In the parlance of today’s warfighters, the “battlespace had been shaped” by the codebreakers of Station Hypo, the information had been passed cogently to […]

Forgive me, gentle readers. I have been quite distracted of late, and perhaps it is only the radical New York uptempo rhythm that now pervades and pulsates in our soggy somnolent former Southern town. I mean, honestly. I had to do my slides for the big weekly meeting- you know, the one where I hold […]

I live in a condominium, and this book was my travel companion this week. Sometimes Art imitates life, or vice versa. This gem of a paperback set the tone for the adventure to the Sunshine state. It is by John D. MacDonald, a prolific author of detective stories set in Florida, and which I used […]

I was up early- probably some opening day anxiety that something could go wrong. There is a lot of that going around these days. The pool was going to open at ten- and I had to be ready. In preparation I cooked some of the Neuski’s corned beef hash and a couple eggs, sunny side […]