23 November 2016 Editor’s Note: 2011 was a good year to hang with Mac. Willow was at the zenith of its culinary achievement about to win back-to-back Washington-area Burger cook-offs, and it did not seem that there was a thing wrong with the world. I was still employed, Mac was active and engaged, and the […]

Editors Note: This was the beginning of the great decline. It is still amazing to me that Mac was still so vital and engaged even as the end was beginning. It is particularly poignant as the holidays come crashing down around us. Gobble gobble! – Vic Frozen in Amber It was the beginning of fall- […]

20 November 2016 Editor’s Note: I was pleased. I managed to pry myself out of bed right around noon. I slept most of the hours after Michigan pried a victory out of the Hoosiers, and the somnolence seemed to have gone a long way to knitting up the raveled sleeves of care, or the flu. […]

19 November 2016 Editor’s Note: I am sick as a dog this morning, and have had to cancel traveel plans. I am shaking under the covers in bed, an with a severe case of mal de mere. i am very disappointed nd hope this passes swiftly so we can get back to bashing one another […]

Editor’s Note: The cabinet nominations are starting to drop. This morning it is Mike Flynn, America’s angriest General (press) for national Security Advisor. Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and a congressman I have never heard of to be Director of the CIA. I wish Mac were around to talk about all this. He might […]