Life and Island Times June 30 2016 – Duval Street Key West’s Duval Street at night in the rain Winding our way down on Duval Street Light in our heads and dead on our feet Another crazy day in the world, we’ll drink the night away And forget about everything The world events make you […]

There is some pretty crazy stuff going on in the world this morning, and I was tempted to break my self-imposed embargo on commenting on some of the most egregious examples of the lunacy. I stayed in last night after a comforting hour-long swim and soaked in what details were available on the bombings at […]

(The Inn at Little Washington, site of two out of two of the most amazing meals of my now unsettlingly long life, courtesy of the Webb Family). I had a minor adventure over the weekend- well, three, if you count the farm and the chores that made me justify a trip to town for a […]

Well, if you have to fail, do so spectacularly. Teddy Roosevelt said something like that, I forget when, but screw it. He was right. And we did. Fail. Epically. I have to acknowledge my partners in the failure, who contributed with élan and espirit, and a certain indomitable panache that made me proud to be […]

This is short and sweet this morning, since I have to leave to pick up Jon Without in a few minutes to join Louie the Coastie and prepare to row across the Potomac, beach the gig, clamber out of the mighty brown river and identify and document the last remaining Stone of the District we […]

Gentle Readers, I am out of airspeed and good ideas this morning- not that there isn’t stuff worth talking about as a sit-in is held on the floor of the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court hands a tie vote to the President which means his executive action on deportation of undocumented workers (is that […]